Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- PART I: INTRODUCTION AND DESCRIPTION OF FINANCIAL CRISES -- 1 Financial Crises: Explanations, Types, and Implications -- 2 Systemic Banking Crises -- PART II: LESSONS IN CRISIS PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT -- 3 Financial and Sovereign Debt Crises: Some Lessons Learned and Those Forgotten -- 4 Procyclicality and the Search for Early Warning Indicators -- 5 Resilience in Latin America: Lessons from Macroeconomic Management and Financial Policies -- 6 External Imbalances and Financial Crises -- PART III: SHORT-TERM EFFECTS: CRISES, RECESSIONS, AND RECOVERIES -- 7 The Global Financial Crisis: How Similar? How Different? How Costly? -- 8 From Recession to Recovery: How Soon and How Strong? -- PART IV: MEDIUM-TERM EFFECTS: ECONOMIC GROWTH -- 9 What's the Damage? Medium-Term Output Dynamics after Financial Crises -- 10 What Have We Learned about Creditless Recoveries? -- PART V: POLICY MEASURES TO PREVENT BOOMS, MITIGATE BUSTS, AND AVOID FINANCIAL CRISES -- 11 Policies for Macro-Financial Stability: Dealing with Credit Booms and Busts -- 12 Policies for Macro-Financial Stability: Managing Real Estate Booms and Busts -- 13 Resolution of Banking Crises: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly -- 14 How Effective Is Fiscal Policy Response in Financial Crises? -- PART VI: POLICY MEASURES TO MITIGATE THE IMPACT OF FINANCIAL CRISES -- AND THE RESTRUCTURING OF BANKS AND OF HOUSEHOLD AND SOVEREIGN DEBT -- 15 Crisis Management and Resolution: Early Lessons from the 2007-09 Financial Crisis -- 16 The Economics of Bank Restructuring: Understanding the Options -- 17 Principles of Household Debt Restructuring -- 18 Dealing with Household Debt -- 19 Restructuring Sovereign Debt: Lessons from Recent History -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M.

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