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The Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 was one of the most dramatic economic events of recent times, which raised many questions regarding the appropriate policy response to financial crises. This paper reviews the experience of this crisis, focusing on the overall strategy of crisis management...
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This paper assesses financial integration in Asia in terms of risk-sharing benefit versus financial-contagion cost. We … discount factors. Risk sharing is low in Asia, and varies across time and countries, whereas contagion risks are more … differentials. Asia, therefore, can potentially enhance risk sharing without raising contagion risk. …
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The unprecedented rise in nonperforming assets during the recent Asian financial crisis severely tested the limit and capacity of the existing asset management infrastructure, leading policymakers to consider new approaches to resolve them. This paper examines two such approaches—the creation...
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This paper investigates the extent to which output has recovered from the Asian crisis. A regime-switching approach that introduces two state variables is used to decompose recessions in a set of six Asian countries into permanent and transitory components. While growth recovered fairly quickly...
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banks in 2009 in Asia, and in 2010 in Latin America and emerging Europe. State-owned banks instead played a counter … growth. Banks in Latin America and Asia that relied more on retail funding had higher credit growth, in particular during the …
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Asia proved to be remarkably resilient in the face of the global financial crisis, but why was its output performance … the global financial crisis. Looking ahead, Asia is in the process of adjusting to more volatile external conditions and …
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The prolonged investment decline in post-Asian crisis emerging Asia, in contrast to the swift recovery of economic …
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This paper investigates fiscal developments in 112 countries during the 1990s. It finds that, while the overall fiscal balance improved in most of them, the composition of this improvement differed. In nonprogram countries, revenues increased modestly and expenditure declined sharply, while in...
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Prior actions are measures that need to be implemented prior to Board approval of an IMFsupported program. This paper examines whether such prior actions can signal a willingness to implement reforms, especially when the member's track record is weak. We find some support for this signaling...
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