What Factors Led to the Asian Financial Crisis: Were or Were Not Asian Economics Sound?

Were East Asian Currencies Overvalued?

What were they thinking? The Federal Reserve in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis

The Federal Reserve (the Fed) is responsible for monitoring, analyzing and ultimately stabilizing US financial markets. It also has unrivalled access to economic data, high-level connections to financial institutions, and a large staff of professionally trained economists. Why then was it apparently unconcerned by the financial developments that are now widely recognized to have caused the 2008...

Prospects for Asian Monetary Cooperation after the Asian Financial Crisis: Pipedream or Possible Reality?

This paper reassesses the prospects for greater monetary integration in Asia in the wake of the Asian financial crisis of 1997. The Asian crisis highlighted the absence of well-developed supranational institutions in Asia to provide early warning signals of impending currency or balance of payments problems, access to unconditional funds to cope with financial problems, and a common defensive m...

Asian Financial Crisis: The South Korean Experience

Why was it that the Korean economy, which had been envied and imitated by other developing economies for the past 30 years, suddenly spiraled into a currency-induced crisis late in 1997? How was it possible that such a vibrant economy, which had been developing so rapidly, displaying in fact the most rapid development amongst the Asian nations, was suddenly overcome by such a severe economic do...

Financial Contagion in the East Asian Crisis

In this chapter, we analyze empirically the existence and extent of financial contagion in the East Asian crisis. We define financial contagion as a significant increase in correlation of financial variables after controlling fundamentals and common shocks, and we develop an autoregressive model to measure contagion. In particular, we attempt to exclude the common effects of the crisis in South...