Different Strokes? Common and Uncommon Responses to Financial Crises
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Summary:
Much of the debate about the management of financial crises has focused on structural and psychological issues regarding the conditions that are supposed to be necessary to restore investor confidence. Nonetheless, the paramount requirement in the short term is for countries in crisis to adopt correct macroeconomic policies. An analysis of conventional macroeconomic models reveals that countries can afford to run expansionary policies to restore internal balance only if they can afford to ignore the requirements for external balance. This arithmetic does not depend on whether macroeconomic policies were inappropriate before the crisis hit.
Series:
Working Paper No. 2001/012
Subject:
Balance of payments Capital flows Capital inflows Capital outflows Financial crises Fiscal policy
English
Publication Date:
January 1, 2001
ISBN/ISSN:
9781451842906/1018-5941
Stock No:
WPIEA0122001
Pages:
19
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