Author Description

"International Finance and Financial Crises; Essays in Honor of Robert P. Flood, Jr. contains the proceedings of a conference held in honor of Robert P. Flood, Jr. Bob Flood has made important contributions to many areas of economic analysis, including regime switching, speculative attacks, bubbles, stock market volatility, macro models with nominal rigidities, dual exchange rates, target zones, and rules versus discretion in monetary policy. Contributors were invited to address any of those topics or others of their choosing. The results include five papers on topics in international finance; two of these, as well as the panel discussion, focus on speculative attacks and financial crises. The other papers take new directions in exploring topics on which the existing literature leaves much to be desired."--BOOK JACKET.