Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: The Structure of Financial Crises -- 1. Capital Structure and Policy Collapse: The Financial Crisis of the Late 1990s -- 2. Market Structure Issues -- Part II: Global Liquidity and Capital Flows -- 3. Why Does Rich-Country Capital Flow to Poor Countries? -- 4. 180 Years of Liquidity Expansion and International Lending -- 5. The Contraction of International Lending -- Part III: The Corporate Finance of Crises -- 6. The Theory of Capital Structure and Financial Risk -- 7. The Capital Structure Trap -- 8. Toward a Theory of Sovereign Capital Structure Management -- 9. Debt Restructurings within a Corporate Finance Framework -- Part IV: Conclusion -- 10. Conclusion: The New Financial Architecture -- Appendix: The Option Characteristics of Sovereign Debt -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.