Contents -- Preface -- Contributors and Conference Participants -- A Tribute to Robert P. Flood, Jr. -- Overview -- 1. Some Parallels Between Currency and Banking Crises -- Comments -- General Discussion -- 2. Balance Sheets, the Transfer Problem, and Financial Crises -- Comments -- General Discussion -- 3. Financial Crises: What Have We Learned from Theory and Experience? -- Summary of Panel Remarks -- Remarks -- 4. On the Foreign Exchange Risk Premium in Sticky-Price General Equilibrium Models -- Comments -- General Discussion -- 5. An Information-Based Model of Foreign Direct Investment: The Gains from Trade Revisited -- Comment -- General Discussion -- 6. An International Dynamic Asset Pricing Model -- Comments -- General Discussion -- 7. Role of the Minimal State Variable Criterion in Rational Expectations Models -- Comment -- General Discussion -- 8. Exact Utilities under Alternative Monetary Policy Rules in a Simple Macro Model with Optimizing Agents -- Simple Monetary Policy Rules Under Model Uncertainty -- Comments -- General Discussion -- Appendix. Robert P. Flood, Jr. - Bibliography -- Index of Authors -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.