The Asian Financial Crisis and the Architecture of Global Finance

by Gregory W. Noble, John Ravenhill

Overview

The financial crises across Asia in 1997-98 ignited fierce debate about domestic economic weaknesses and flaws in the international financial system. Some analysts blamed Asian governments for inadequate prudential supervision, widespread failures of corporate governance and even "crony capitalism." Others assailed the inherent instability of global financial markets and what they considered to be hasty and ill-conceived liberalization taken at the behest of western-dominated international financial institutions. In this volume a distinguished group of political scientists, economists, and practitioners examines the political and economic causes and consequences of the crisis. To what extent were domestic economic factors to blame for the crisis? Why were some economies more prone to crisis than others? What are the costs and benefits of international financial liberalization? Who bears the risks and the costs of measures taken to reduce them? And what are the prospects for reform of the International Monetary Fund, international banking standards, and foreign exchange systems?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521790918
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/04/2000
Series:	Cambridge Asia-Pacific Studies
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.33(h) x 0.94(d)

Table of Contents

1. Causes and consequences of the Asian financial crisis Gregory W. Noble and John Ravenhill; 2. Capital flows and crises Stephen Grenville; 3. The political economy of the Asian financial crisis: Korea and Thailand compared Stephan Haggard and Andrew MacIntyre; 4. The good, the bad, and the ugly? Korea, Taiwan and the financial crisis Gregory W. Noble and John Ravenhill; 5. Indonesia: reforming the institutions of financial governance? Natasha Hamilton-Hart; 6. Political impediments to far-reaching banking reforms in Japan: implications for Asia Jennifer Amyx; 7. Dangers and opportunities: the implications of the Asian financial crisis for China Hongying Wang; 8. The International Monetary Fund in the wake of the Asian crisis Barry Eichengreen; 9. Taming the phoenix?; Monetary governance after the crisis Benjamin J. Cohen; 10. The vagaries of debt: Indonesia and Korea Thomas M. Callaghy; 11. The new international financial architecture and its limits Miles Kahler.

Editorial Reviews

' … this is an important book on an important subject.' Asian-Pacific Economic Literature

From the Publisher