Corsetti, Giancarlo; Pesenti, Paolo; Roubini, Nouriel - Banca d'Italia - 1998
The paper explores the view that the Asian currency and financial crises in 1997 and 1998 reflected structural and policy distortions in the countries of the region, even though market overreaction and herding caused the plunge of exchange rates, asset prices and economic activity to be more...