This paper reviews the adjustment processes of the 5 East Asian countries since the currency crisis erupted in Thailand in 1997. The cross-country differences and similarities in macroeconomic policies were compared. After the initial free-fall, signs of recovery became visible only from the end...

This paper documents the unfolding process of the Korean crisis in 1997. First, we show that it was hard to predict the Korean crisis at least up till the first half of 1997. Our judgement is based on the pre-crisis behavior of the leading indicators of currency crisis, the financial market data...

Providing an integrated analysis of the event and its consequences, the chapters in the book consider the causes of the crisis, the response of the US government and International Monetary Fund, adjustments in the Korean monetary and fiscal policies, and the success of financial and corporate...

We investigate the implications of converse consistency in the context of bargaining. A solution is conversely consistent if whenever for some problem, a feasible alternative has the property that for all proper subgroups of the agents it involves, the solution chooses the restriction of the...

Utilizing insights from new growth theory, Porter's competitive advantage theory, and Kojima's theory of DFI, this paper analyzes the overall growth mechanism of the Korean economy by integrating various dimensions, such as factor intensity changes, sectoral growth, trade performance, and direct...

The paper derives the asymptotic variance bound for instrumental variables (IV) estimators, and extends the Gauss-Markov theorem for the regressions with correlated regressors and regression errors. For some special class of models, the usual IV estimator attains the lower bound and becomes the...

This paper considers the cointegrating regression with errors whose variances change smoothly over time. The model can be used to describe a longrun cointegrating relationship, the tightness of which varies along with time. Heteroskedasticity in the errors is modelled nonparametrically and is...