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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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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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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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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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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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Crisis Management and Resolution; Early Lessons from the Financial Crisis
Pazarbasioglu, Ceyla; Laeven, Luc; Nedelescu, Oana M.; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
Staff Discussion Notes showcase the latest policy-related analysis and research being developed by individual IMF staff and are published to elicit comment and to further debate. These papers are generally brief and written in nontechnical language, and so are aimed at a broad audience...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245897
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What Drives Contagion; Trade Neighborhood, or Financial Links?
Valdés, Rodrigo O.; Hernández, Leonardo - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
This paper presents evidence on the relative importance of alternative contagion channels during the Thai, Russian, and Brazilian crises. Results show that when crises are measured by changes in sovereign bond spreads, financial competition seems to explain almost all contagion episodes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005605301
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Is Asia Prepared for An Aging Population?
Heller, Peter S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
countries are addressing and anticipating the challenges of an aging society. It suggests that Asia's preparedness for an aging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248253
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A Quantitative Assessment of Financial Conditions in Asia
Osorio, Carolina; Unsal, D. Filiz; Pongsaparn, Runchana - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
used as a leading indicator. Based on the FCI, financial conditions in Asia tightened substantially earlier in the global … crisis, reflecting losses in the stock markets and tighter credit conditions. In early 2010, financial conditions in Asia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009203540
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Revenue Administration Reforms in anglophone Africa Since the Early 1990's
Kloeden, David - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
Despite positive but mixed progress over two decades, most lower income African countries need to enhance their low tax-to-GDP ratios by mobilizing domestic resources to complement debt relief, donor aid and to achieve the MDG and poverty reduction objectives. With these goals in mind, most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009203533