Twelve papers, presented at the annual meeting of the Western Economic Association held in Lake Tahoe in June-July 1998, examine recent banking and financial crises in a number of countries worldwide and address the challenge of resolving these crises and preventing future crises. ...Kaufmann is John F. Smith Professor of Finance at Loyola University, Chicago. Journal of Economic Literature

• Introduction (G.G. Kaufman). PART I: Banking on Crises: Expensive Lessons (G. Caprio, Jr.). Current experiences in Southeast Asia (G. Garcia). The political economy of banking and financial regulatory reform in emerging markets (R.S. Kroszner). Czech banking reform: what went wrong and why? (T.S. Mondschean). Comment (P.M. Horvitz). PART II: Financial Fragility: Theories and Empirical Evidence (H.A. Benink). Korea and Japan: the end of the "Japanese Financial Regime," (T.F. Cargill). Bank relations and the perception of a bank crisis - A case study of Italy (P.M. Reedtz). Asian banking crises in the 1990s: all alike? (A.J. Schwartz). Comment (D. Evanoff). PART III: The Role of Governments and Markets in International Banking Crises: The Case of East Asia (J. Barth et al.). An examination of bank regulators' decisions to fail banks: an international perspective (P.F. Bartholomew, B.E. Gup). Does the publication of supervisory enforcement actions add to Market discipline (R.A. Gilbert, M.D. Vaughan). Central banks, asset bubbles, and financial stability (G.G. Kaufman). Comment (R. Nelson).

Twelve papers, presented at the annual meeting of the Western Economic Association held in Lake Tahoe in June-July 1998, examine recent banking and financial crises in a number of countries worldwide and address the challenge of resolving these crises and preventing future crises. ...Kaufmann is John F. Smith Professor of Finance at Loyola University, Chicago. Journal of Economic Literature

• Introduction (G.G. Kaufman). PART I: Banking on Crises: Expensive Lessons (G. Caprio, Jr.). Current experiences in Southeast Asia (G. Garcia). The political economy of banking and financial regulatory reform in emerging markets (R.S. Kroszner). Czech banking reform: what went wrong and why? (T.S. Mondschean). Comment (P.M. Horvitz). PART II: Financial Fragility: Theories and Empirical Evidence (H.A. Benink). Korea and Japan: the end of the "Japanese Financial Regime," (T.F. Cargill). Bank relations and the perception of a bank crisis - A case study of Italy (P.M. Reedtz). Asian banking crises in the 1990s: all alike? (A.J. Schwartz). Comment (D. Evanoff). PART III: The Role of Governments and Markets in International Banking Crises: The Case of East Asia (J. Barth et al.). An examination of bank regulators' decisions to fail banks: an international perspective (P.F. Bartholomew, B.E. Gup). Does the publication of supervisory enforcement actions add to Market discipline (R.A. Gilbert, M.D. Vaughan). Central banks, asset bubbles, and financial stability (G.G. Kaufman). Comment (R. Nelson).

Twelve papers, presented at the annual meeting of the Western Economic Association held in Lake Tahoe in June-July 1998, examine recent banking and financial crises in a number of countries worldwide and address the challenge of resolving these crises and preventing future crises. ...Kaufmann is John F. Smith Professor of Finance at Loyola University, Chicago. Journal of Economic Literature

• Introduction (G.G. Kaufman). PART I: Banking on Crises: Expensive Lessons (G. Caprio, Jr.). Current experiences in Southeast Asia (G. Garcia). The political economy of banking and financial regulatory reform in emerging markets (R.S. Kroszner). Czech banking reform: what went wrong and why? (T.S. Mondschean). Comment (P.M. Horvitz). PART II: Financial Fragility: Theories and Empirical Evidence (H.A. Benink). Korea and Japan: the end of the "Japanese Financial Regime," (T.F. Cargill). Bank relations and the perception of a bank crisis - A case study of Italy (P.M. Reedtz). Asian banking crises in the 1990s: all alike? (A.J. Schwartz). Comment (D. Evanoff). PART III: The Role of Governments and Markets in International Banking Crises: The Case of East Asia (J. Barth et al.). An examination of bank regulators' decisions to fail banks: an international perspective (P.F. Bartholomew, B.E. Gup). Does the publication of supervisory enforcement actions add to Market discipline (R.A. Gilbert, M.D. Vaughan). Central banks, asset bubbles, and financial stability (G.G. Kaufman). Comment (R. Nelson).