Financial crisis management

James M. Boughton

Financial crisis management

The international debt crisis of the 1980s and the financial crises in emerging-market countries since 1994 have necessitated new approaches to managing the consequences and helping the affected countries recover. My research in this field has focused primarily on the role of the IMF.

“Different Strokes? Common and Uncommon Responses to Financial Crises”; forthcoming in Ashoka Mody and Alesandro Rebucci (Editors), The IMF on IMF-Supported Programs: Assessing Program Design, Implementation, and Effectiveness (Washington: International Monetary Fund, 2005).

“Was Suez the First Financial Crisis of the Twenty-First Century?”, Finance and Development (September 2001)

“Northwest of Suez: The 1956 Crisis and the International Monetary Fund,” IMF Staff Papers, Vol. 48 (2001), No. 3.

“From Suez to Tequila: The IMF as Crisis Manager,” The Economic Journal, Vol. 110 (January 2000), pp. 273-91

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