Under what circumstances, past and present, have international rescues of countries in financial distress been successful?

Journal of International Money and Finance

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 683-708

  Bordo, Michael D ^a   Schwartz, Anna J ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

'Too big to fail'; Bailout loans; Banking panic; Contagin; Currency crisis; Financial crisis; Illiquidity; Insolvency; International rescue loans; Monetary regime; Moral hazard

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033175458     PISSN: 02615606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0261-5606(99)00022-4     Document Type: Article

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