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Two Approaches to Resolving Nonperforming Assets During Financial Crises
Woo, D. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826132
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Mitigating the Social Costs of the Economic Crisis and the Reform Programs in Asia
Bogetic, Željko; Gupta, Sanjeev; McDonald, Calvin A.; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826706
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Risk Sharing and Financial Contagion in Asia; An Asset Price Perspective
Rungcharoenkitkul, Phurichai - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369441
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Bank Ownership and Credit Growth in Emerging Markets During and After the 2008–09 Financial Crisis — A Cross-Regional Comparison
Chen, Guodong; Wu, Yi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142108
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Why Was Asia Resilient? Lessons from the Past and for the Future
Jeasakul, Phakawa; Lim, Cheng Hoon; Lundbäck, Erik J. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142139
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Explaining ASEAN-3’s Investment Puzzle A Tale of Two Sectors
Zhou, Yong Sarah - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
The prolonged investment decline in post-Asian crisis emerging Asia, in contrast to the swift recovery of economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142140
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Did Output Recover From the Asian Crisis?
Cerra, Valerie; Saxena, Sweta Chaman - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005604941
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Managing Financial Crises; The Experience in East Asia
Lane, Timothy D.; Hamann, A. Javier; Schulze-Gattas, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263845
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Yen Bloc or Yuan Bloc; An Analysis of Currency Arrangements in East Asia
Shirono, Kazuko - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
This paper examines the role of Japan against that of China in the exchange rate regime in East Asia in light of …, Japan does not appear to be a dominant player in forming a currency union in East Asia, and this trend is likely to continue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826046
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Growth Slowdowns and the Middle-Income Trap
Aiyar, Shekhar; Duval, Romain A; Puy, Damien; Wu, Yiqun; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
The “middle-income trap” is the phenomenon of hitherto rapidly growing economies stagnating at middle-income levels and failing to graduate into the ranks of high-income countries. In this study we examine the middle-income trap as a special case of growth slowdowns, which are identified as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790409