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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Asian Crisis"”.
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Legitimating the IMF : lessons from the Asian crisis
… three questions: what caused the IMF's apparent crisis of legitimacy in the aftermath of the Asian crisis, why were the subsequent reforms so limited and what does that apparent paradox tell us about the politics of IMF policy-making? Criticism of the Fund's role in Asia was largely criticism of …
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Deliberate uncertainty : the South Asian Crisis of 1971, the Nixon White House, and the U.S. State Department
… focuses on the events surrounding the South Asia Crisis of 1971, beginning in when the Pakistani government launched its military crack-down in East Pakistan in the spring and extending to the conclusion of the Indo-Pak War by the year's end. It examines how President Nixon's administration and …
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Vulnerability to currency crises: a contrast between south Africa and Zimbabwe in the 1990s.
… unsustainable government policy in precipitating crisis, whereas second generation models are more concerned with the credibility problem facing government could how private agents can push government into crisis. Second generation models also imply currency crises can be unpredictable. Despite …
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The securitization of the real estate market in Korea : future impacts to the Korean real estate market
… capital in order to overcome the economic crisis since the International Monetary Fund $55 billion bailout to the Korean government. During the Asian crisis, both large institutional companies and small businesses went bankrupt due to financial distress caused by over-leverage. …
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The Impact Of Corporations Excess Saving Behavior And Macroeconomic Policies On Poverty Incidence: Empirical Analysis Of Indonesia, Philippines And Thailand
The period since the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis has witnessed many reforms in the economic structure and financial landscape in Asian economies that have increasingly influenced the global economy and financial discourse. The extents of these reforms not only involve macroeconomic policies but …
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Non-linear aspects of financial integration: An analysis of the real interest rate parity for Southeast Asian economies
… occurred mainly over the 1980's, when Southeast Asian economies enacted several reforms in their financial markets, at the beginning of the Asian crisis and in the following two years after this crisis. Second, unit root tests provide supportive evidence that, except for Thailand, Southeast Asian …
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Essays on Financial Crises in Emerging Markets: Role of Capital Inflow, Financial Intermediaries and the Dynamics of Contagion
… essay of this dissertation examines the 1997 Asian financial crisis. It is shown that existing literature on currency crises fail to provide any early warning indicators that would have predicted the across-the-board distress seen in the Asian economies. An alternative approach to tracking …
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Essays in international finance
… view that credit rating agencies aggravated the Asian crisis by excessively downgrading those countries. I find that ratings are, if anything, sticky rather than excessively procyclical. Assigned ratings exceeded predicted ratings prior to the crisis, mostly matched predicted ratings during the …
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Project finance for independent power producers in developing countries : the Paiton I project generation project in Indonesia
… utility to honor the contract when the mid-1997 Asian crisis occurred. Several key lessons arise from the case analyses. The take-or-pay level in the tariff structure is high while the demand projection is over optimistic; the risk arrangement is imbalanced, with the public utility assuming the …
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A New Direction for Asean Regionalisation in the Changing Global Legal and Economic Environment.
… growing region in the world. But the 1997 Asian crisis sent the Asian Tigers' into turmoil. The rise and fall of Asia clearly reflects the interdependence of East Asian countries and the world economy, and also reflects the impact of the changing global legal and economic environment on …
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The impact of the struggle for racial equality in the United States on British racialised relations from 1958 to 1968
… years between the 1958 race riots to the Kenyan Asian crisis. The first part of the thesis examines the background to British perceptions about both the 'special relationship' with the United States and images of African Americans in the period prior to the years under review. It explores the …
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Essays on Financial Markets
… highly volatile Nordic stock markets during the Asian Crisis 1997-1998, using a number of different forecast evaluation techniques. The results from the different evaluation methods all indicate a better performance of the Orthogonal GARCH model compared to traditional unconditional forecasting …
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Essays in financial economics
… the Impact of Corporate Governance on the East Asian Financial Crisis." In a sample of 399 firms from Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand, cross-firm differences in variables related to corporate governance had a significant impact on firm performance during the East Asian …
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Subset vector autoregressions for listed property and oil markets using bootstrap model selection
… multiple markets. This study covers the Asian market crisis and the current global credit crisis. Critically this study includes modelling of the potential for currency effects to impact the diversification environment. Diversification benefits evaporate during the crisis in both hedged …
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Subset vector autoregressions for listed property and oil markets using bootstrap model selection
… multiple markets. This study covers the Asian market crisis and the current global credit crisis. Critically this study includes modelling of the potential for currency effects to impact the diversification environment. Diversification benefits evaporate during the crisis in both hedged …
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Finanzkrisen - Eine portfoliotheoretische Betrachtung von Herdenverhalten und Ansteckungseffekten als Ursachen von Finanzkrisen
Finanzkrisen sind spätestens seit den 1990'er Jahren ein sehr prominentes und interessantes Forschungsobjekt der Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Dieses Jahrzehnt war durch eine Vielzahl von Finanzkrisen gekennzeichnet, von denen nur wenige Länder vollkommen verschont blieben. Die vorliegenden Arbeit …