Ten crises
1. Introduction : varieties of financial crises -- 2. Chile 1982 : twin crises in the Southern Cone -- 3. ERM 1992 : bumps on the road to monetary unification -- 4. Mexico 1994 : travails of a star pupil -- 5. Asia 1997 : the miracle undermined -- 6. Russia 1998 : pitfalls of transition -- 7. Brazil 1999 : the perils of stabilization -- 8. Ecuador 1999 : triple crises and dollarization -- 9. Turkey 2001 : a triple crisis narrowly averted -- 10. Argentina 2002 : collapse of the convertibility plan -- 11. Iceland 2008 : the Geyser economy -- 12. A summing up.