José Carlos Wong D. Office: Mertonstrasse 17-21, Uni-Postbox 77 Room 504 B D-60054 Frankfurt a. M. Phone: +49 (69) 798-22817 Email:

Curriculum Vitae:

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Current Research:

• Emerging Markets Financial Crises
• Financial Systems and Development

Publications:

• “Financial liberalization and money demand in Peru” (with Christopher Blevins and Laurence Vagassky) in Intereconomics: Review of International Trade and Development, Vol. 34, No. 2, 1999
• “Are changes in spreads of external-market debt also induced by contagion?” in Intereconomics: Review of International Trade and Development, Vol. 35, No. 2, 2000 (available through World Bank's financial contagion website)
  
• “Asset prices and monetary liquidity in Latin America” in Ciencia Económica (Spanish version), January/June 2001. (Journal of the University of Lima)
• “Exotic options: Currency Translated Options” (with Robert Tompkins) Vol. 49, December 2001. Österreichisches Bank-Archiv (Austrian Journal of Banking)

Working papers:

• “Credit risk modelling: applications to country risk analysis” 2002 (mimeo)
• “What drives stock returns in Latin America? An analysis of the period 1995-2000” (2003)
• “Market structure, competition and intermediation in the banking industry” (2004)

Links:

• Graduate Program "Finance and Monetary Economics"
• Department of Finance
• Department of Monetary Economics
• Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
• Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University