The Credit Crunch in East Asia

The Credit Crunch in East Asia
Author: Pierre-Richard Agénor
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2000
Genre: Bank Cred Bank Lending
ISBN:

A two-step approach is used to assess the extent to which the credit crunch in East Asia was supply- or demand-driven. The results for Thailand suggest that the contraction in bank lending that accompanied the crisis was the result of supply factors.

Financial Sector Crisis and Restructuring

Financial Sector Crisis and Restructuring
Author: Carl-Johan Lindgren
Publisher:
Total Pages: 103
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781557758712

An IMF paper reviewing the policy responses of Indonesia, Korea and Thailand to the 1997 Asian crisis, comparing the actions of these three countries with those of Malaysia and the Philippines. Although all judgements are still tentative, important lessons can be learned from the experiences of the last two years.

In Search of "Capital Crunch"

In Search of
Author: Mr.David Woo
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 29
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1451841884

The seeming failure of loose monetary policy to reactivate Japan’s economy has led some observers to suggest that the usual credit channels through which monetary policy affects the real economy are blocked, and this because of a pervasive shortage of bank capital that has induced a leftward shift in the supply of bank credit: the so called credit crunch hypothesis. This paper finds support for the hypothesis in the 1997 bank data—a year during which the landscape of the Japanese financial system was changed fundamentally—but finds no, or even contrary, evidence, for most of the 1990’s.

East Asia

East Asia
Author:
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 158
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780821342992

East Asia: The Road to Recovery carefully analyzes the events that led to the current economic crisis in East Asia, the tremendous effects the crisis has had on the Asian economies, and prospects for the region's future. Chapters in the book cover the region's trade and competitiveness; the financial sector at the center of the crisis; the corporate sector's financial performance and governance; the social crisis resulting from the financial crash; protection of the environment as well as the people; and policies for sustainable recovery. This book not only discusses how this catastrophe could ever have taken place, but more importantly, what can be done to ensure that it won't happen again.

From Asian to Global Financial Crisis

From Asian to Global Financial Crisis
Author: Andrew Sheng
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2009-09-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521118646

This is a unique insider account of the new world of unfettered finance. The author, an Asian regulator, examines how old mindsets, market fundamentalism, loose monetary policy, carry trade, lax supervision, greed, cronyism, and financial engineering caused both the Asian crisis of the late 1990s and the current global crisis of 2008-2009. This book shows how the Japanese zero interest rate policy to fight deflation helped create the carry trade that generated bubbles in Asia whose effects brought Asian economies down. The study's main purpose is to demonstrate that global finance is so interlinked and interactive that our current tools and institutional structure to deal with critical episodes are completely outdated. The book explains how current financial policies and regulation failed to deal with a global bubble and makes recommendations on what must change.

The Asian Financial Crisis

The Asian Financial Crisis
Author: Morris Goldstein
Publisher: Peterson Institute
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780881322613

The turmoil that has rocked Asian markets since the middle of 1997, and that is now having such deep effects on the economies in the region, is the third major currency crisis of the 1990s. This study explains how the Asian crisis arose and spread. It then outlines the corrective policy measures that could help end the crisis, and the shortcomings that have been revealed in the international financial system that require reform to reduce the chances of a recurrence.

New Welfare States in East Asia

New Welfare States in East Asia
Author: Gyu-Jin Hwang
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2011
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1849807531

The fast changing economic climate is creating substantial pressure for welfare state restructuring worldwide. Yet the discussion regarding challenges faced and the responses required has been confined to the 'standard welfare states' in the West. This book examines whether these challenges also apply to the countries in the East, whether these countries have generated different responses to their Western counterparts, and whether they have undergone a process of regime transformation while responding to these pressures. Comparative in approach, this book offers lively discussion on the new social challenges faced in East Asia following the unprecedented scale of the recent global financial crisis. It reaches beyond policy descriptions to offer more systematic analyses of welfare restructuring in the region in relation to the fast changing global economic order. By examining the dynamics of welfare state restructuring both in terms of continuity and change, it explores intensified impacts of global restructuring of welfare and the nature of welfare state adaptation in the region.

Monetary and Financial Cooperation in East Asia

Monetary and Financial Cooperation in East Asia
Author: Masahiro Kawai
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2015
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0198714157

This edited volume evaluates the prospects for monetary and financial cooperation in East Asia after the crises in the developed countries (2008 in the US, 2010 in Europe).

The Credit Crunch in East Asia

The Credit Crunch in East Asia
Author: Pierre-Richard Agenor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2004
Genre:
ISBN:

The paper proposes a two-step approach to assessing the extent to which the fall in credit in crisis-stricken East Asian countries was a supply- or demand-induced phenomenon. The first step is based on the estimation of a demand function for excess liquid assets by commercial banks. Such a function is derived analytically in the first part of the paper. The second step consists in establishing dynamic projections for the periods following the crisis and assessing whether or not residuals are large enough to be viewed as indicators of involuntary' accumulation of excess reserves. Results for Thailand indicate that the contraction in bank lending that accompanied the crisis was the result of supply factors.

Economic Dynamism of Asia in the New Millenium

Economic Dynamism of Asia in the New Millenium
Author: Yoshinori Shimizu
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9812707565

This book is a compendium of papers on various new movements that emerged after the Asian financial crisis, which lead to Asia becoming the enhanced growth center of the world. Beginning with the analysis of the Asian crisis and the subsequent capital flight, the book goes on to study the impact of these events on the Hong Kong economy, the role of the government in Indonesia and financial restructuring in Thailand. The book then explores the new movement of regional cooperation, such as Free Trade Agreement, and financial cooperation and integration. On the real side of the economy, the book delves into issues such as cooperation between Japan and China, development of the Greater Mekong sub-region, growth of China, fiscal coordination in Korea, technological network in East Asia, and growth and inequality in Vietnam.