Includes bibliographical references and index.

Financial boom-bust cycles -- Lending booms and lending standards / Giovanni Dell'Ariccia, Robert Marquez -- Are weak banks leading credit boom? : Evidence from emerging Europe / Deniz Igan, Natalia Tamirisa -- Growth dynamics : the myth of economic review / Valerie Cerra, Sweta Chaman Saxena -- From subprime loans to subprime growth? : Evidence for the euro area / Martin Čihák, Petya Koeva Brooks -- The real effect of banking crises / Giovanni Dell'Ariccia, Enrica Detragiache, Raghuram Rajan -- Systemic crises and growth / Romain Rancière, Aaron Tornell, Frank Westermann -- Financial integration. financial liberalization, and economic performance -- The external wealth of nations Mark II : revised and extended estimates of foreign assets and liabilities, 1970-2004 / Philip R. Lane, Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti -- Reaping the benefits of financial globalization / Giovanni Dell'Ariccia ... [et al.] -- Financial globalization : a reappraisal / M. Ayhan Kose ... [et al.] -- International financial integration and economic growth / Hali Edison ... [et al.] --

The quality effect : does financial liberalization improve the allocation of capital? / Abdul Abiad, Nienke Oomes, Kenichi Ueda -- Policy issues -- Monetary policy and asset prices : does "benign neglect" make sense? / Michael D. Bordo, Olivier Jeanne -- Corporate governance quality : trends and real effects / Gianni de Nicoló, Luc Laeven, Kenichi Ueda -- Country insurance : the role of domestic policies / Törbjörn Becker ... [et al.] -- International reserves in emerging market countries : too much of a good thing? / Olivier Jeanne -- Policy responses to systemic banking crises / Luc Laeven, Fabian Valencia.