REFERENCES (additional readings will be assigned as necessary)
The Role of IFIs
Visit IFI websites to get introduction
International Monetary Fund (IMF), 2009a, Initial Lessons of the Crisis for the Global
Architecture and the IMF, Washington DC.
Eichengreen, Barry, 1999, Toward A New International Financial Architecture: A Practical
Post-Asia Agenda, Institute for International Economics.
Fischer, Stanley, 1997, “Applied Economics in Action: IMF Programs,” the American
Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 87, No. 2.
*Krueger, Anne, “Whither the World Bank and the IMF?,” Journal of Economic Literature, Vol.
36, No. 4 (Dec., 1998), pp. 1983-2020.
*Ito, Takatoshi, 2007a, 経済教室「IMF の監視機能強化を」日本経済新聞 7 月１１日
ttp://www.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~tito/KeizaiKyoshitsu20070711.pdf
*Ito, Takatoshi, 2008, 経済教室「金融安定に向けた国際協調−IMF の統治改革が重要」日
本経済新聞、11 月20 日
Rogoff, Kenneth, 2003, “The IMF strikes back,” Foreign Policy, No. 134, pp. 38-46.
Easterly, William, 2002, The Elusive Quest for Growth, MIT Press.
Stiglitz, J., 2002, Globalization and its Discontents. New York: W.W. Norton.
The Asian Crises
*Ito, Takatoshi, 2007b, "Asian Currency Crisis and the International Monetary Fund, 10 Years
Later: Overview," Asian Economic Policy Review 2, pp16-49.
Fischer, S., “The Asian Crisis: A view from the IMF,”
ttp://www.imf.org/external/np/speeches/1998/012298.htm
*IMF factsheets: “The IMF’s Response to the Asian Crisis,” January 1999
IMF, Independent Evaluation Office, 2002. The IMF and Recent Capital Account Crises:
Indonesia, Korea, and Brazil
ttp://www.imf.org/external/np/ieo/2003/cac/pdf/all.pdf
*Krugman, P. and M. Obstfeld “East Asia: Success and Crisis,” in International Economics:
Theory and Policy, 8th Edition.
Mishkin, Frederic S., 1999, “Lessons from the Asian crisis,” Journal of International Money
and Finance, 18.
“The Asian Crisis: Causes and Cures,” Finance & Development, June 1998, Volume 35,
Number 2.
Radelet, S., Sachs J, Cooper, RN, and BP Bosworth, 1998, “The East Asian financial crisis:
diagnosis, remedies, prospects,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity , No. 1, pp. 1-90.
The Current Global Crisis
Latest articles on the current events are found at:
The Economist Magazine: ttp://www.economist.com
Roubini’s Global Economic Monitor ttp://rgemonitor.com
