Governments on both sides of the Atlantic have reacted with a raft of new regulations to the US subprime mortgage crisis. The article argues that while these new rules actually touch many of the incentive and information problems which were instrumental in creating the crisis, they only address...

The global financial crisis has reignited the debate about the risks of financial globalization, in particular the international transmission of financial shocks. We use data on individual loans by the largest international banks to their various countries of operation to examine whether banks'...

The Thai economy is vulnerable to external shocks because of its high exposure to trade and capital flows. Despite its adverse consequences on the real sector of the Thai economy in 2009, the global financial crisis had little impact on the Thai financial sector. The healthy performance and...

This study analyzes house price movements in the ASEAN+3 countries. Though there exist many reservations due to the serious limitations in the data quality and availability, the primary results appear to imply that the possibility of collapse in the ASEAN+3 region’s house prices is smaller...

Interbank activities including bilateral deposits and loans are widely considered a direct channel for financial contagion. Through this channel, the failure of one bank may trigger the insolvency of other banks, causing a systemic failure or large loss of assets. This research empirically tests...

The aim of this study is to examine an existence of contagion in ASEAN-5 currency markets during COVID-19 period, the type of contagion whether it is pure contagion that happens in the short run only or fundamentals-based contagion in the long run and the country source of this contagion effect....