Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I. The Structure of Financial Crises
1: Capital Structure and Policy Collapse: The Financial Crisis of the Late 1990s
2: Market Structure Issues
Part II. Global Liquidity and Capital Flows
3: Why Does Ric-Country Capital Flow to Poor Countries?
4: 180 Years of Liquidity Expansion and International Lending
5: The Contraction of International Lending
Part III. The Corporate Finance of Crises
6: The Theory of Capital Structure and Financial Risk
7: The Capital Structure Trap
8: Toward a Theory of Sovereign Capital Structure Management
9: Debt Restructurings within a Corporate Finance Framework
Part IV. Conclusion
10: Conclusion: The New Financial Architecture
Appendix: The Option Characteristics of Sovereign Debt
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Michael Pettis is a Managing Director at Bear Stearns, a New York investment bank and an adjunct professor at Columbia University where he teaches courses in international finance. He has been involved in emerging markets, both as an investment banker and as a sovereign adviser, since 1987. In addition, he has written extensively on the subject, on specialized financial topics, and on policy.

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