1. Currency Crises in Emerging-Market Economies: An Overview.- 2. Predicting Currency Crises, the Role of Multiple Equilibria and the Contagion Effect.- 3. International Liquidity and Currency Crisis Costs.- 4. Currency Crises in the Context of Exchange Rate Regime Choice.- 5. Currency Crises and Fiscal Imbalances — Transition Countries’ Perspective.- 6. Propagation of Currency Crises — The Case of the Russian Crisis.- 7. The Economic and Social Consequences of Currency Crises.- 8. The Failure of the IMF in Preventing Currency Crises in CIS Countries.- 9. The Bulgarian Currency Crisis of 1996–1997.- 10. The Czech Currency Crisis of 1997.- 11. The Russian Currency Crisis of 1998.- 12. The Ukrainian Currency Crisis of 1998.- 13. The Moldovan Currency Crisis of 1998.