Economic and Financial Developments in Latin America

SIMA MOTAMEN-SAMADIAN is a Principal Lecturer in Economics and Director of the Centre for the Study of Emerging Markets (CSEM) at the Westminster Business School, UK. She obtained her MA and PhD in Economics from Essex University, and worked at the Tehran University, City University Business School, and Portsmouth University. She has co-edited International Debt and Central Banking in the 1980's with Z. Rez (Macmillan 1987), Emerging Markets: Past and Present Experiences, and Future Prospects with C. Garido (Macmillan 2000), and edited Dynamic Models and Their application in Emerging and Global Markets (Palgrave Macmillan 2005), Capital Flows and Direct Foreign Investments In Emerging Markets (Palgrave Macmillan 2005), Risk Management in Emerging Markets, Governance and Risk Management in Emerging, and Global Markets and Global Stock Markets and Portfolio Management.

• List of Figures, Tables and Appendices Preface Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; S.Motamen-Samadian Convertibility Law and its Role in Argentina's Economy; S.Motamen-Samadian International Prudential Regulation and the Prevention of Banking Crises in Latin America; A.Minda & S.Truquin From Financial Repression to Financial Regression: The Limits of the 'Tyrannical Auctioneer' and Monetary Policy; E.Ortiz Inflation Targeting and Exchange Rate Risk in Emerging Economies Subject to Structural Inflation; G.Mántey Credible Commitments and the Relevance of State Capacity: Mexico's Foreign Direct Investment under the NAFTA; A.A.Gonzalez The Determinants of the Disappearance of Mexican Banks; C.Hernandez-Rodriguez Corporate Foreign Vulnerability, Corporate Financial Policies and the Exchange Rate Regime: Evidence from Brazil; J.L.Rossi Junior Index