Financial Vulnerability, Spillover Effects, and Contagion: Lessons from the Asian Crises for Latin America

from the Table of Contents: Acknowledgments; Summary; Introduction; Symptoms and root causes of financial vulnerability: An interpretation of the Asian crises; Suggestive evidence of the symptoms of financial vulnerability; The effects of the Asian crises on Latin America: The channels of spillover effects and contagion; Latin America before and during the Asian crises; Conlcuding remarks; Appendix 1: Statistical Appendix; Appendix 2: Inventory of controls on capital transactions in Asia and Latin America prior to the 1997 crises; Appendix 3: Data definitions and sources; Notes; References; Tables; Figures;