Table of Contents

I — Sovereign Risk.- Country Risk Analysis: Principles, Practices and Policies.- Country Default Risk and the Determinants of Sovereign Debt Discounts.- Assessment of Sovereign Risk for South America: A Structural Approach.- Sovereign Ratings and Financial Crises.- The Impact of Sovereign Rating Changes during Emerging Market Crises.- Managing Sovereign Credit Risk with Derivatives.- II — Financial Crises.- Crises and Contagion in Financial Markets.- Contagion and the Behavior of International Equity Funds.- Identifying the Role of Contagion in Currency Crises with Markov-Switching Models.- Empirical Links between Twin Crises in the 1980s and the 1990s: Were there Differences?.- The Real Impacts of Excessive Exchange Rate Volatility in Emerging Markets.- Early Warning Systems: Lessons from New Approaches.- The Credibility of Private Sector Involvement in the Resolution of Financial Crises.- Currency Boards and Financial Stability: Experiences from Argentina and Bulgaria.- Notes on Contributors.