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Economic and Financial Developments in Latin America

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  • © 2006

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Editors:
  1. Sima Motamen-Samadian

    1. Westminster Business School, University of Westminster, UK

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Part of the book series: Centre for the Study of Emerging Markets Series (CSEM)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Sima Motamen-Samadian
    Pages 1-5

  3. Convertibility Law and its Role in Argentina’s Economy

    • Sima Motamen-Samadian
    Pages 6-45

  4. International Prudential Regulation and the Prevention of Banking Crises in Latin America

    • Alexandre Minda, Stéphanie Truquin
    Pages 46-69

  5. From Financial Repression to Financial Regression: The Limits of the ‘Tyrannical Auctioneer’ and Monetary Policy

    • Etelberto Ortiz
    Pages 70-98

  6. Inflation Targeting and Exchange Rate Risk in Emerging Economies Subject to Structural Inflation

    • Guadalupe Mántey
    Pages 99-128

  7. Credible Commitments and the Relevance of State Capacity: Mexico’s Foreign Direct Investment under the NAFTA

    • Albert A. Gonzalez
    Pages 129-151

  8. The Determinants of the Disappearance of Mexican Banks

    • Clemente Hernandez-Rodriguez
    Pages 152-171

  9. Corporate Foreign Vulnerability, Financial Policies and the Exchange Rate Regime: Evidence from Brazil

    • Jose Luiz Rossi Jr
    Pages 172-193

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 195-197
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This book evaluates the economic effect of monetary policies and exchange rate arrangements within Latin America. Using theoretical and empirical studies, the text examines pertinent issues in Argentina, Mexico and Brazil, including the role of currency board, inflation targeting and international prudential regulation in banking crisis reduction.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Westminster Business School, University of Westminster, UK

    Sima Motamen-Samadian

About the editor

SIMA MOTAMEN-SAMADIAN is a Principal Lecturer in Economics and Director of the Centre for the Study of Emerging Markets (CSEM) at the Westminster Business School, UK. She obtained her MA and PhD in Economics from Essex University, and worked at the Tehran University, City University Business School, and Portsmouth University. She has co-edited International Debt and Central Banking in the 1980's with Z. Rez (Macmillan 1987), Emerging Markets: Past and Present Experiences, and Future Prospects with C. Garido (Macmillan 2000), and edited Dynamic Models and Their application in Emerging and Global Markets (Palgrave Macmillan 2005), Capital Flows and Direct Foreign Investments In Emerging Markets (Palgrave Macmillan 2005), Risk Management in Emerging Markets, Governance and Risk Management in Emerging, and Global Markets and Global Stock Markets and Portfolio Management.

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