Frontier Markets Generally
Countriesregion
Little of this is country knowledge; it is about the shape of the asset class. The most useful books are those that explain why frontier and emerging crises repeat with the same structure regardless of geography.
7 books · 1 people behind it
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- Breakout NationsRuchir Sharma, 2012
- The Rise and Fall of NationsRuchir Sharma, 2016
- The Volatility Machine: Emerging Economies and the Threat of Financial CollapseMichael Pettis, 2001
The people behind it 1
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Investors 1
Books 7
Michael Pettis · 2001 · Balance-sheet structure, not policy error, as the cause of crises; the best analytic frame here.
Ruchir Sharma · 2012 · Earlier and more country-by-country; useful as a record of which calls aged well.
Ruchir Sharma · 2016 · Ten practical rules a country allocator can actually check; written by one who did the job.
Antoine van Agtmael · 1999 · By the man who coined the term 'emerging markets'; the case for world-class EM operating companies.
Jim Rogers · 2003 · Driving through 116 countries scouting markets from the ground up
Gavin Serkin · 2015 · Travelogue-with-fund-managers format, but the only book aimed squarely at frontier allocation.
Paul Domjan, Gavin Serkin, Brandon Thomas, John Toshack · 2020 · A working method for scoring country risk across frontier markets.