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    Currency Crises

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    The East Asian Financial Crisis: Diagnosis, Remedies, Prospects

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    macroeconomics, East Asian Financial Crisis, East Asia, Financial crisis, Diagnosis, Remedies, Prospects

    Developing Country Debt and the Market Value of Large Commercial Banks

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    The effect on commercial banks of exposure to large amounts of developing country debt has been a topic of increasing concern in recent years. Fear of default on the part of the debtor countries has led to fears for the solvency of the creditor banks since in many cases the total of outstanding exposure to risky debtors exceeds the entire capital base of the banks involved. The paper presents a first effort towards measuring the effects of LDC debt exposure on the market value of large commercial value banks in the United States. Our results indicate that exposure to developing country debt has exerted a measurable and significant negative effect on the ratio of market to book value for these banks.

    The onset of the East Asian financial crisis

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    노트 : Volume Title: Currency crisesChapter Title: The onset of the East Asian financial crisi

    The New and Old Originalism: A Discussion

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    These five essays, which were originally published on the Library of Law and Liberty website, explore several themes involving the new and

    The New and Old Originalism: A Discussion

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    These five essays, which were originally published on the Library of Law and Liberty website, explore several themes involving the new and

    The Onset of the East Asian Financial Crisis

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    This paper provides an early diagnosis of the financial crisis in Asia, focusing on the empirical record in the lead-up to the crisis. The main goal is to emphasize the role of financial panic as an essential element of the Asian crisis. At the core of the crisis were large-scale foreign capital inflows into financial systems that became vulnerable to panic. The paper finds that while there were significant underlying problems and weak fundamentals besetting the Asian economies at both a macroeconomic and a microeconomic level, the imbalances were not severe enough to warrant a financial crisis of the magnitude that took place in the latter half of 1997. A combination of panic on the part of the international investment community, policy mistakes at the onset of the crisis by Asian governments, and poorly designed international rescue programs turned the withdrawal of foreign capital into a full-fledged financial panic, and deepened the crisis more than was either necessary or inevitable.
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