"Déjà Vu all over again?": The Mexican crisis and the stabilization of Uruguay in the 1970s

World Development

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 449-464

  Blejer, Mario I ^a   Del Castillo, Graciana ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

Current account adjustment; Exchange rate based stabilization; Short term capital movements

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL FLOWS; ECONOMIC STABILISATION; EXCHANGE RATES;

MEXICO; URUGUAY;

EID: 0031926932     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-750X(97)10069-9     Document Type: Article

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