Dollarization in Cuba / Rémy Herrera, Paulo Nakatani -- Dollarization and political risk : is there a forum for debate? / Harvey Arbelèz -- The flow of capital to Latin America, 1973-2000 / Lall Ramrattan, Aron A. Gottesman, Michael Szenberg -- Lending of last resort, bank monitoring and endogenous financial dollarization / Germana Corrado -- Concentration and internationalization of the Mexican banking sector / Roberto J. Santillán-Salgado -- Bankruptcy in banks from Ecuador : solvency versus panic theories / Franco Parisi, Carlos Maquieira, Antonino Parisi -- Political distortions and spread of banking crises across the pacific rim / Victor Vaugirard -- Day of the week and month of the year effects at the Latin American emerging markets / Alejandra Cabello, Edgar Ortiz -- Finance : evolution or rlatin / Harvey Arbelèz, Reid William Click -- Proximity preference and market liquidity : evidence from Latin American ADRS / Chandrasekhar Krishnamurti, Aleksandar evic -- Alternative beta risk estimators in emerging markets : the Latin American case / Robert D. Brooks, Robert W. Faff, Tim Fry, Diana Maldonado-Rey -- Open market stock repurchases at São Paulo stock exchange : BOVESPA / Jairo Laser Procianoy, Lui?s Fernando Moreira -- FDI and stock market development in selected Latin American countries / Wendy M. Jeffus -- An empirical analysis of U.S. equity market spillover effects into the equity and labor markets of Brazil / Alhassan Bangura, Roberto Curci -- Negative liquidity premia and the shape of the term structure of interest rates : evidence from Chile / Viviana Fernández -- Embedded governance in corporate bond indentures : evidence from Brazil, 1998-2001 / Richard Saito, Hsia Hua Sheng, Senichiro Koshio, Marcos Galileu de Lorena Dutra -- Is the Latin American pension reform model transferable? An assessment utilizing the Venezuelan social security system / J.Tim Query, Evaristo Diz -- Capital budgeting decisions : a survey of Latin American practices / Harvey Arbeláez -- Optimal portfolio allocations and funded pension systems : the case of Chile / Mirko Cardinale -- How sensitive is volatility to exchange rate regimes? : The case of Chile / Viviana Fernández -- Brazilian real futures trading and volatility in the Brazilian equity market / Cynthia J. Brown, Roberto Curci.

This book is a collection of 21 original papers on Latin American finance by prominent researchers in and out of the region. This is an attempt to bring them together under the same umbrella so that the commonality and peculiarity of Latin finance can be more easily discerned across different applications as well as compared across countries. While topics are diverse (encompassing corporate finance, banking, equity and bond markets, dollarization, and pension funds), the papers range from country-specific to comparative and international in perspectives.