Recent studies have conjectured that there may be a link between financial liberalization and financial instability in emerging economies. Most of these studies, however, do not investigate whether emerging economies are becoming structurally more vulnerable to currency and banking crises. In this paper, we argue that emerging economies are systematically becoming more susceptible to both curre...

1 The Mexican crisis of 1994 and its unprecedented international spillover through global financial markets signaled the dawn of a new era in capital-markets crises that challenged, and defeated, both economists' theories and practitioners' policies. Around that time, there was heated debate as to whether this crisis differed from previous Mexican crises triggered by fiscal indiscipline and rea...

BACKGROUND Oculogyric crises are involuntary movements of the eyeballs and can occur due to different etiologies. PHENOMENOLOGY SHOWN This video abstract shows a man with oculogyric crises due to side effect of neuroleptics. EDUCATIONAL VALUE Oculogyric crises are easy to recognize if once seen.

Short-term collateralized debt, private money, is efficient if agents are willing to lend without producing costly information about the collateral backing the debt. When the economy relies on such informationally-insensitive debt, firms with low quality collateral can borrow, generating a credit boom and an increase in output. Financial fragility is endogenous; it builds up over time as inform...

With the financial crises ongoing in Greece and Venezuela, sovereign debt crises have become more and more prominent in the public eye. Thus, it has become important to be able to predict when nations will enter such debt crises. We collected publicly available data in order to train models to predict, given a nation’s economic status in one year, whether they would be in a debt crisis the next...

Currency crises tend to affect countries in geographic proximity. This suggests that regional patterns of international trade are important in understanding how currency crises spread, above and beyond any macroeconomic phenomena. Using data for five different currency crises (in 1971, 1973, 1992, 1994, and 1997) we show that currency crises affect countries tied together by international trade...

Aplastic and hypoplastic crises are well recognised complications of sickle cell disease. Recent evidence has shown that most of these crises are caused by parvovirus infection. Five cases of aplastic or hypoplastic crises in patients born and living in this country were studied. Three patients had clear evidence of parvovirus infection, while in two evidence of parvovirus infection was lacking...