Assignment:
10 pages research paper about balance of payment or currency crisis.
You will write a short paper on episodes of balance of payments or currency crises. A list of such crises from which you could choose is presented in Table 2 of the paper "Varieties of Currency Crises," by Graciela L. Kaminsky, Working Paper 10193, National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2003: https://www.nber.org/papers/w10193. You could also look at the currency crises listed in Table 1 of the paper "Systemic Banking Crises Revisited," by Luc Laeven and Fabian Valencia, International Monetary Fund, WP/18/206, September 2018: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2018/09/14/Systemic-Banking-Crises-Revisited46232. We will coordinate the assignments in class to avoid duplications.