Latin American Economic Crises

Introduction; E.Bour, D.Heymann & F.Navajas PART I: MACROECONOMIC CRISES A Comparison of Currency Crises between Asia and Latin America; K.Hamada Latin American and the External Crisis of the Second Half of the 1990s; V.Corbo Banking Crises in Latin America in the 1990s: Lessons from Argentina, Paraguay and Venezuela; A.Garcia Herrero On the Causes of the Latin American and Asian Currency Crises of the 1990s; M.Fratzscher Contagion in Emerging Markets: When Wall Street in the Carrier; G..Calvo PART II: TRADE AND TRADE AGREEMENTS Preferential Trade Agreements at the Turn of the Century; T.N.Srinivasan The Role of Sub-regional Agreements in Latin American Economic Integration; V.Urquidi International Specialization and Trade Regimes in Argentina 1960-99; L.Miotti, C.Quenan & C.Winograd Testing the Short- and Long-run Exchange Rate Effects on the Trade Balance: The Case of Colombia; H.Rincon External Shocks, Relative Prices and Sectoral Reallocation in a Small Open Economy: Evidence from Mexico; T.Iscan Exchange Rate Pass-through: The Case of Brazilian Exports of Manufacturers; A.Ferreira & A.Sansó PART III: LABOUR AND INCOME DISTRIBUTION The Impact of Firing Costs on Turnover and Unemployment: Evidence from Colombia; A.Kugler Structural Reform and the Distribution Effects of Price Changes in Argentina; F.Navajas Endogenous Child Mortality, the Price of Child Goods and Fertility Decisions: Evidence from Argentina; A.Cigno & G.Pinal Child Labour in Peru: an Empirical Analysis and Modelling Implications; R.Ray