Post-Asian Financial Crisis Reforms in Thailand
Author: Wanxue Lu
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9819737710
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Author: Wanxue Lu
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9819737710
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Shams Pathan
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 39
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis paper provides an empirical analysis on Thailand's bank governance reforms after the Asian financial crisis in 1997 and then examines the stock market's response. Unlike the pre-crisis period, we find that the bank sector returns (or return volatilities) have become more Granger causal to the overall stock market in the post-crisis period. Announcements of bank governance reforms are generally also associated with significant change in bank sector returns. This adds to the proposition that improved bank governance is related to improved bank performance as measured by their bank stock returns.
Author: Tull Traisaorat
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2000-02-23
Total Pages: 474
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book takes as its focus the current supervisory and regulatory framework for bank supervision in Thailand and the Thai authorities' efforts to modernise and restructure the Thai banking system. It examines the obstacles to this restructuring, which include the current economic difficulties in Thailand and the East Asia region as well as more fundamental historical, cultural and socio-economic factors that underpin Thai society. The book looks at the numerous banking statutes put in place in Thailand in the past sixty years, including legislation of the 1980s in response to problems involving fraud, insider dealing and solvency concerns. It examines how historically ambiguous structures of governmental responsibility and power, and a heavy emphasis on government discretion in regulation, have so far inhibited the effectiveness of this extensive body of legislation in developing a sound modern banking system. There follows an in-depth analysis of the 1997-1998 Thai Banking Crisis and ways in which lessons can be learned to avoid similar crises in future. The author argues for a greater degree of transparency in the regulatory process to bring it into line with internationally accepted standards, for increased supervisory implementation and enforcement by Thai governmental authorities, and for the ultimate depoliticisation of the bank regulatory and supervisory processes.
Author: Morris Goldstein
Publisher: Peterson Institute
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780881322613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe turmoil that has rocked Asian markets since the middle of 1997, and that is now having such deep effects on the economies in the region, is the third major currency crisis of the 1990s. This study explains how the Asian crisis arose and spread. It then outlines the corrective policy measures that could help end the crisis, and the shortcomings that have been revealed in the international financial system that require reform to reduce the chances of a recurrence.
Author: Peter Warr
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-09-09
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1134541562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThailand Beyond the Crisis includes recent research to give an accurate and up to date picture of the status of Thailand's economic recovery. The Asian economic crisis began in Thailand and ended a decade of sustained economic boom. This book identifies the role of policy errors involving both the Thai government and the IMF that lead to the crash of the fastest growing economy in the world. Warr addresses the consequences of the crisis, including sharply increased poverty incidence and a backlog of non- performing loans which clogged the banking system, delaying recovery. Key content includes: * the Social Consequences of the crisis, and alternatives * public sector reform * implications of a floating exchange rate * education * urbanisation and the environment.
Author: Karl Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-03-05
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 0429981805
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor much of the second half of the twentieth century, the Asian economic "miracle" has fueled the greatest expansion of wealth for the largest population in the history of mankind. In the summer of 1997, thirty years of economic boom came crashing back to earth. The reality of unrestrained speculation, inefficiently regulated currency exchange, banking instability and bad loans have struck the much-vaunted "Asian Tigers" like Thailand, Indonesia, Korea, and, finally, Japan, casting a shadow of uncertainty on a region recently to the fore in the world economic system. Recovery depends largely on reform within the Asian economies themselves and a cold assessment of the structural weaknesses that lay under the surface, but only now have come to light. The implications for world economies and, more broadly, the dynamics of world politics, are tremendous.
Author: Eddy Lee
Publisher: International Labour Organization
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9789221108504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study examines the social impact of the Asian financial crisis which began in July 1997. Several countries experienced an economic shock of unprecedented severity after decades of uninterrupted growth. The severe rise in unemployment and its repercussions in the worst-affected countries (Thailand, Republic of Korea and Indonesia) overwhelmed the underdeveloped systems of social protection. Higher unemployment and inflation combined to push many people into poverty. A central policy message is that current programmes of policy and institutional reform following the crisis, should include a basic rethinking of the social dimension of the future model of development. The author also argues for the introduction of unemployment insurance, the expansion of social assistance and the strengthening of active labour market policies.
Author: F. Gul
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2004-10-31
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 0230523277
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines government/regulatory responses to the Asian Financial Crisis which brought unprecedented financial turmoil for most East Asian countries. It provides thought-provoking insights on fundamental differences in the institutional and regulatory framework of 10 East Asian countries, including an assessment of the various corporate governance reforms after the crisis.
Author: Carl-Johan Lindgren
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 103
ISBN-13: 9781557758712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn IMF paper reviewing the policy responses of Indonesia, Korea and Thailand to the 1997 Asian crisis, comparing the actions of these three countries with those of Malaysia and the Philippines. Although all judgements are still tentative, important lessons can be learned from the experiences of the last two years.
Author: Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Publisher: NUS Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9789971692865
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter the Storm discusses restructuring and growth strategies adopted in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and South Korea after the currency and financial crisis of 1997-98. These four Asian economies were the most adversely affected despite achieving rapid growth in the 1970s and 1980s, with low inflation and current account surpluses. Although macroeconomic fundamentals in these countries were relatively sound prior to the crisis, early analyses of the crisis dwelled on the failure of corporate governance, currency controls and immature financial institutions and infrastructure in some countries. The book offers fresh insights into the causes of the crisis and postcrisis restructuring, the growth strategies adopted, and domestic initiatives taken by these countries. It also reveals why reforms recommended by the IMF, World Bank and others were met with resistance, thereby contributing to the ongoing discourse on the effects of globalisation.