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Managing Financial Crises: The Experience in East Asia

By Timothy D. Lane, A. J Hamann, Marianne Schulze-Gattas, Ales Bulir, Steven T Phillips, Atish R. Ghosh, Alex Mourmouras, Jack Boorman

June 1, 2000

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Timothy D. Lane, A. J Hamann, Marianne Schulze-Gattas, Ales Bulir, Steven T Phillips, Atish R. Ghosh, Alex Mourmouras, and Jack Boorman. Managing Financial Crises: The Experience in East Asia, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2000) accessed November 8, 2024
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Summary

The Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 was one of the most dramatic economic events of recent times, which raised many questions regarding the appropriate policy response to financial crises. This paper reviews the experience of this crisis, focusing on the overall strategy of crisis management and the way that strategy was implemented, including with regard to official and private financing, structural reforms, and monetary and fiscal policies.

Subject: Credit, Currencies, Exchange rates, Financial crises, Foreign exchange, Monetary policy, Monetary tightening, Money

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Broad money, Credit, Credit crunch, Currencies, Current account, East Asia, East Asian financial crisis, Economic activity, Exchange rates, Financial support, Funding crisis, IMF, Monetary tightening, Nominal exchange rate, Short-term debt, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    66

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2000/107

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA1072000

  • ISBN:

    9781451852974

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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