The objective of this paper is to examine the growth and development in the Asian financial markets and then focus on equity-market developments in the Asian economies. Asian equity markets have grown exponentially over the last two decades. The trauma of the Asian crisis crystallized...

In the initial stages, Asian economies remained insulated from the global financial crisis of 2007--09 and there seemed to be a possibility that Asia would find easy passage through it. But an outward-oriented group of economies could not possibly be immune from the crisis for long, and as the...

The global financial crisis, the so-called great world recession and recovery have had a serious impact on the Asian and global economies. Together, they managed to engender significant transformation in the contours of both the Asian and global economies. For instance, Asian economies presently...