Institutional investors and Polanyi's double movement: A model of contemporary currency crises

Review of International Political Economy

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 389-437

  Harmes, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Currency crises; East Asian crisis; Institutional investors; Peso crisis; Polanyi; ERM crisis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035621276     PISSN: 09692290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09692290110055812     Document Type: Article

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