Securing stability and growth in Latin America : policy issues and prospects for shock-prone economies / edited by Ricardo Hausmann and Helmut Reisen.

Preface / by Jean Bonvin and Enrique V. Iglesias, 7 -- Opening remarks / by Jean Bonvin, 9 -- Recurring themes in Latin American economic thought: from prebisch to the market and back / by Nancy Birdsall and Carlos E. Lozada, 11 -- Securing stability and growth in a shock-prone region: the policy challenge for Latin America / by Ricardo Hausmann and Michael Gavin, 23 -- A comment / by Silvio Borner, 65 -- A comment / by Zanny Minton Beddoes, 75 -- Searching for nominal anchors in shock-prone economies in the 1990s: inflation targets and exchange rate bands / by Leonardo Leiderman and Gill Bufman, 79 -- A comment / by Agustin Carstens and Moises Schwartz, 127 -- A comment / by Charles Wyplosz, 131 -- Building Stability in Latin American financial markets / by Liliana Rojas-Suarez and Steven R. Weisbrod, 139 -- A comment / by Stephany Griffith-Jones, 167 -- A Comment / by Hans J. Blommestein, 171 -- The management of capital flows: lessons from Latin America and Asia / by Helmut Reisen , 177 -- A comment / by Philip Turner, 203 -- A comment / by Stephen Fidler, 209 -- Sharing risk in volatile labour markets / by Rene Cortazar, 215 -- A comment / by Hugo A. Hopenhayn, 233 -- A comment / by Rolf Schinke, 241 -- Searching for the right budgetary institutions for a volatile region / by Ricardo Hausmann and Ernesto Stein, 247 -- A comment / by Sweder van Wijnbergen, 267 -- A comment / by Jürgen von Hagen, 273 -- Securing stability in Latin America: what have we learned? / by Helmut Reisen, 279 -- Programme, 285 -- List of participants, 291.