TY - BOOK AU - Frenkel Michael AU - Karmann Alexander AU - Scholtens Bert TI - Sovereign risk and financial crises SN - 3-540-22248-0 U1 - 332.042 PY - 2004/// CY - Berlin PB - Springer-Verlag KW - Financial crisis KW - International finance KW - Risk management N2 - As the Asian economic crisis in the late 1990s revealed once again, financial crises are the rule rather than the exception in capitalist economies. The event also revealed that international public debt agreements are contingent claims. In a world of in ER -