The Argentine crisis witnessed, among other things, a deposit run, the suspension of deposit convertibility, and a "boom" in the stock market. The authors argue that this boom reflects the cost that depositors were willing to incur to get their money out of the banking system, in light of the impending risks. This boom was generalized to all stocks and more pronounced in liquid stocks. Furthermore, the boom was a symptom that deposits were effectively restricted and that investors were not able to circumvent capital controls. This paper--a product of Macroeconomics and Growth, Development Research Group--is part of a larger effort in the group to understand financial crises.

Money and Financial Systems by Dr. V. C. Sinha and Dr. J. C. Varshney is a publication of SBPD Publishing House, Agra. This book is addressed to the students of monetary economics. Much of the discussion in the book relates to the financial institutions, theory of money and credit supply and monetary and credit policy. In the 1990’s, the economic reforms were started in the Indian economy and financial sector reforms were the key to these reforms. Therefore, in the past one decade or more, the financial sector in India has undergone historical changes. The authors have tried to incorporate all those changes in the book and have given the latest picture of the financial sector to the students.

"The authors argue that the cross-market premium (the ratio between the domestic and the international market price of cross-listed stocks) provides a valuable measure of international financial integration, reflecting accurately the factors that segment markets and inhibit price arbitrage. Applying to equity markets recent methodological developments in the purchasing power parity literature, they show that nonlinear Threshold Autoregressive (TAR) models properly capture the behavior of the cross market premium. The estimates reveal the presence of narrow non-arbitrage bands and indicate that price differences outside these bands are rapidly arbitraged away, much faster than what has been documented for good markets. Moreover, the authors find that financial integration increases with market liquidity. Capital controls, when binding, contribute to segment financial markets by widening the non-arbitrage bands and making price disparities more persistent. Crisis episodes are associated with higher volatility, rather than by more persistent deviations from the law of one price. "--World Bank web site.

Nos. 1-13 include installments of "An inquiry into the principles..."; no. 13-26, installments of "A short history of paper money ..."