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The international community's response to the Asian financial crisis

The U.S. economy just completed another stellar year, marked by strong growth and declining inflation. Indeed, the low inflation of recent years has been instrumental in reinvigorating the U.S. economy, helping unleash a new vibrancy and confidence across the country. However, the shock wave working its way toward us from the Western Pacific will likely be a countervailing force in our economy.> > Financial turmoil in a handful of Asian countries should slow the growth of spending by foreigners on U.S. goods and services. On balance, most economists are currently guessing that reduced demand ...
Economic Review , Volume 83 , Issue Q II , Pages 5-7

Newsletter
A retrospective on the Asian crisis of 1997: was it foreseen?

Chicago Fed Letter , Issue Jan

Journal Article
Will the Tenth District catch the Asian flu?

While the impacts of the Asian financial turmoil on the United States have been widely discussed and studied, few analysts have looked at the likely impact on the Tenth District Economy. Gazel and Lamb examine the negative impacts of the Asian financial turmoil on the Tenth District and find that while the overall impact on the district economy is likely to be moderate, some segments of the economy could be hurt significantly. Two important sectors of the Tenth District economy likely to be affected by the Asian economic crisis are manufacturing and agriculture.> District manufacturing ...
Economic Review , Volume 83 , Issue Q II , Pages 9-26

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Thoughts on the origins of the Asia crisis: impulses and propagation mechanisms

The traditional fundamentals suggested by first and second-generation of crisis models did not provide much indication of an impending crisis in Asia. Growing current account deficits and somewhat overvalued real exchange rates suggested some need to curtail domestic demand and/or engineer nominal currency depreciation, but did not suggest a crisis of the magnitude that has occurred. ; Nevertheless, to a large extent, the Asian crisis can be explained in terms of impulses and propagation mechanisms related to fundamentals, specifically general weaknesses and distortions in the financial ...
Pacific Basin Working Paper Series , Paper 98-07

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Contractionary effects of devaluation

FRBSF Economic Letter

Working Paper
Asia's financial crisis: lessons and policy responses

This paper argues that fundamental weaknesses in Asian financial systems that had been masked by rapid growth were at the root of East Asia's 1997 currency and financial crisis. These weaknesses were caused by the lack of incentives for effective risk management created by implicit or explicit government guarantees against failure. The weakness of the financial sector was accentuated by large capital inflows, which were partly encouraged by pegged exchange rates. ; Policy responses need to be designed to restore growth in an environment of macroeconomic stability in the short run, and to ...
Pacific Basin Working Paper Series , Paper 98-02

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Beyond the border : the Asian meltdown

Southwest Economy , Issue Jan , Pages 13-14

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Statement to Congress, January 30, 1998, (recent financial crisis in Asia)

Federal Reserve Bulletin , Issue Mar

Working Paper
Macroeconomic control in liberalizing Socialist economies: Asian and European parallels

Pacific Basin Working Paper Series , Paper 92-05

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Market mechanisms for avoiding the next currency crash: lessons from Asia

Conference Series ; [Proceedings] , Volume 42 , Issue Jun , Pages 194-205

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