Description
| Product ID: | 9780195143300 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Volatility Machine |
| Subtitle: | Emerging Economies and the Threat of Financial Collapse |
| Authors: | Author: Michael Pettis |
| Page Count: | 272 |
| Subjects: | Economic theory and philosophy, Economic theory & philosophy, Economic systems and structures, Finance and the finance industry, Economic systems & structures, Finance, Developing countries |
| Description: | This volume presents a radically different argument for what has caused and likely will continue to cause the collapse of emerging market economies. It explains how capital structures in emerging markets can be correlated or inverted. This book presents a radically different argument for what has caused, and likely will continue to cause, the collapse of emerging market economies. Pettis combines the insights of economic history, economic theory, and finance theory into a comprehensive model for understanding sovereign liability management and the causes of financial crises. He examines recent financial crises in emerging market countries along with the history of international lending since the 1820s to argue that the process of international lending is driven primarily by external events and not by local politics and/or economic policies. He draws out the corporate finance implications of this approach to argue that most of the current analyses of the recent financial crises suffered by Latin America, Asia, and Russia have largely missed the point. He then develops a sovereign finance model, analogous to corporate finance, to understand the capital structure needs of emerging market countries. Using this model, he finally puts into perspective the recent crises, a new sovereign liability management theory, the implications of the model for sovereign debt restructurings, and the new financial architecture. Bridging the gap between finance specialists and traders, on the one hand, and economists and policy-makers on the other, The Volatility Machine is critical reading for anyone interested in where the international economy is going over the next several years. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2001-06-07 |
