Macroeconomics in Emerging Markets

The macroeconomic experience of emerging and developing economies has tended to be quite different from that of industrial countries. Compared to industrial countries, emerging and developing economies have tended to be much more unstable, with more severe boom/bust cycles, episodes of high inflation and a variety of financial crises. This textbook describes how the standard macroeconomic models that are used in industrial countries can be modified to help understand this experience and how institutional and policy reforms in emerging and developing economies may affect their future macroeconomic performance. This second edition differs from the first in offering: extensive new material on themes such as fiscal institutions, inflation targeting, emergent market crises, and the Great Recession; numerous application boxes; end-of-chapter questions; references for each chapter; more diagrams, less taxonomy, and a more reader-friendly narrative; and enhanced integration of all parts of the work.

Preface; Part I. The Macroeconomic Framework: 1. Introduction and overview; 2. Concepts and definitions: the macroeconomic accounts; 3. Short-run macroeconomics and long-run growth; Part II. A Benchmark Macroeconomic Model: 4. The aggregate production function, the labor market, and aggregate supply; 5. Aggregate demand and goods market equilibrium; 6. Financial markets; 7. Short-run macroeconomic equilibrium; 8. Medium-run macroeconomic equilibrium; Part III. Public Finance and Macroeconomic Performance: 9. The intertemporal budget constraint of the public sector; 10. Sovereign risk premia; 11. Fiscal institutions; 12. Privatization; 13. High inflation and inflation stabilization; Part IV. Monetary Institutions and Monetary Policy: 14. Monetary institutions; 15. Inflation targeting; Part V. Exchange Rate Management: 16. Equilibrium real exchange rates; 17. The benchmark model with floating exchange rates; 18. Exchange rate regimes; 19. Managing an officially-determined rate; Part VI. The Financial Sector and Macroeconomic Performance: 20. Finance, welfare, and growth; 21. Financial repression; 22. Financial reform; 23. The benchmark model with banks; 24. Coping with capital inflows; Part VII. Varieties of Emerging-Market Crises: 25. Sovereign debt crises; 26. Banking crises; 27. Currency crises and crisis interactions; 28. Lessons from the emerging market crises of the nineties; 29. Lessons from the great recession.

This second edition differs from the first in offering: more diagrams and less taxonomy, application boxes, end-of-chapter questions, references for each chapter, enhanced integration of the parts of the work, and new material on themes such as fiscal institutions, inflation targeting, emergent market crises and the Great Recession.

Peter J. Montiel is Farleigh S. Dickinson, Jr, '41 Professor of Economics at Williams College, Massachusetts. He formerly taught at Florida International University, Amherst College and Oberlin College. Professor Montiel held positions as Senior Policy Advisor at the International Monetary Fund and as Chief of the Macroeconomics and Growth Division of the Policy Research Department of the World Bank. He has served on the editorial board of several professional journals and is a past Associate Editor of World Development. He is the author of nine books, including most notably the three editions of Development Economics (with Pierre-Richard Agenor) and a large number of articles in professional journals. Professor Montiel has been a Visiting Scholar at the IMF, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the University of Manchester, the University of Helsinki and the Monetary Authority of Singapore.