Dani Rodrik

Susan M. Collins

Currency crises are extremely perplexing problems, initially erupting in a country's financial markets and spreading throughout a country's economy and beyond—often with devastating consequences for real economic activity. Experts on the two most recent crises—in Argentina and Turkey—together with others who have studied currency crises more broadly, examine why such crises continue to erupt and how to mitigate their impact, possibly preventing additional crises in the future. Argentina's Avoidable Crisis: Bad Luck, Bad Economics, Bad Politics, Bad Advice Andrew Powell, Universidad Torcuato di Tella Hard Money's Soft Underbelly: Understanding the Argentine Crisis Ricardo Hausmann, Harvard University Andrés Velasco, Harvard University Banking Sector Fragility and Turkey's 2000–01 Financial Crisis Fatih Özatay, Merkez Bankasi Güven Sak, Merkez Bankasi Panel: Lessons of Recent Currency Crises Morris Goldstein, Institute for International Economics Currency Crises: A Practitioner's View Jose Luis Machinea, Inter-American Development Bank Does East Asia Need a New Development Paradigm? Yung Chul Park, Korea University Currency crises are extremely perplexing problems, initially erupting in a country's financial markets and spreading throughout a country's economy and beyond—often with devastating consequences for real economic activity. Experts on the two most recent crises—in Argentina and Turkey—together with others who have studied currency crises more broadly, examine why such crises continue to erupt and how to mitigate their impact, possibly preventing additional crises in the future. Argentina's Avoidable Crisis: Bad Luck, Bad Economics, Bad Politics, Bad Advice Andrew Powell, Universidad Torcuato di Tella Hard Money's Soft Underbelly: Understanding the Argentine Crisis Ricardo Hausmann, Harvard University Andrés Velasco, Harvard University Banking Sector Fragility and Turkey's 2000–01 Financial Crisis Fatih Özatay, Merkez Bankasi Güven Sak, Merkez Bankasi Panel: Lessons of Recent Currency Crises Morris Goldstein, Institute for International Economics Currency Crises: A Practitioner's View Jose Luis Machinea, Inter-American Development Bank Does East Asia Need a New Development Paradigm? Yung Chul Park, Korea University

Brookings Trade Forum: 2002

Lael Brainard

Tentative contents include: •Offshoring: Threats and Opportunities Daniel Trefler (University of Toronto) •Modeling the Offshoring of White-Collar Services: From Comparative Advantage to the New Theories of Trade and FDI James Markusen (University of Colorado) •Globalization and the Outsourcing of Services: The Impact of Indian Offshoring Rafiq Dossani (Stanford University) •Offshoring in the Semiconductor Industry: A Historical Perspective Clair Brown and Greg Linden (University of California, Berkeley) •A Fairer Deal For America's Workers in a New Era of Offshoring Lael Brainard and Robert Litan (Brookings Institution and the Kauffman Foundation)

Offshoring White-Collar Work

Brookings Trade Forum: 2005

This annual series provides comprehensive analysis on current and emerging issues of international trade and macroeconomics. Practitioners and academics contribute to each volume, with papers that provide an in-depth look at a particular topic. The fourth edition focuses on the issues and implications of globalization. Contents include: "Holding International Reserves in an Era of High Capital Mobility" Robert P. Flood (International Monetary Fund) and Nancy Marion (Dartmouth College) "The Impossible Duo? Globalization and Monetary Independence in Emerging Markets" Andrés Velasco (Harvard University) "The Adoption of International Labor Standards Conventions: Who, When, and Why?" Nancy H. Chau and Ravi Kanbur (Cornell University) "The Determinants of Individual Trade Policy Preferences: International Survey Evidence" Kevin O'Rourke and Richard Sinnott (Trinity College, Dublin) "Borders, Trade, and Welfare" James E. Anderson (Boston College) and Eric van Wincoop (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) Expansion Strategies of U.S. Multinational Firms Gordon Hanson (University of Michigan), Raymond J. Mataloni Jr. (BEA), and Matthew J. Slaughter (Dartmouth College) 2002, 6 x 9, 300 pp. paper, 0-8157-1575-7, $24.95 / £18.50 (ISSN 1520-5479)

Brookings Trade Forum: 2001

Barry P. Bosworth

Miguel A. Soto-Class

A non-incorporated territory of the United States, Puerto Rico operates under U.S. legal, monetary, security and tariff systems. Despite sharing in these and other key U.S. institutions, Puerto Rico has experienced economic stagnation and large scale unemployment since the 1970s. The island's living standards are low by U.S. standards, with a per capita income only half that of Mississippi, the poorest state. While many studies have analyzed the fiscal implications of Puerto Rico's political relationship with the United States, little research has focused broadly on the island's economic experience or assessed its growth prospects. In this innovative new book, economists from U.S. and Puerto Rican institutions address a range of major policy issues affecting the island's economic development. To frame the current situation, the contributors begin by assessing Puerto Rico's past experience with various growth policies. They then analyze several reforms and new initiatives in labor, education, entrepreneurship, fiscal policy, migration, trade, and financing development, which they incorporate into a proposed strategy for jumpstarting Puerto Rican economic growth. Contributors include Gary Burtless (Brookings Institution); Orlando Sotomayor, Luis Rivera-Batiz, Ramón Cao, Maria Enchautegui, José Joaquín Villamil, Eileen Segarra, Marinés Aponte, and Juan Lara (University of Puerto Rico); Richard Freeman and Robert Lawrence (Harvard University); Helen Ladd (Duke University); Francisco Rivera-Batiz (Columbia University); Steven Davis and Bruce Meyer (University of Chicago); James Alm (Georgia State University); Ingo Walter, Rita Maldonado-Bear, and William Baumol (New York University); Belinda Reyes (University of California, Merced); Alan Krueger (Princeton University); Carlos Santiago (University of Wisconsin); David Audretsch (Indiana University); Ronald Fisher (Michigan State University); Fuat Andic (UN Advisor); Arturo Estrella (NY Federal Reserve); James Hanson and Daniel Lederman (World Bank); James Dietz (University of California, Fullerton); and Katherine Terrell (University of Michigan).

Susan M. Collins

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