Edited by Duck-Koo Chung, Professor, Graduate School of International Studies and Director, Research Center for International Finance, Seoul National University, South Korea, Former Vice Minister of Finance and Minister of Commerce, Industry and...
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Edited by Duck-Koo Chung, Professor, Graduate School of International Studies and Director, Research Center for International Finance, Seoul National University, South Korea, Former Vice Minister of Finance and Minister of Commerce, Industry and Energy of Korea and Currently Visiting Professor, Beijing University, China and Barry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, US. More than five years have passed since South Korea fell prey to the Asian financial crisis. Bringing together experts from Korea and
Includes bibliographical references (p. 344-368) and index
Papers from an international conference convened in October 2002 by the Research Center for International Finance (RICF) of Seoul National University
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Preliminaries; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Abbreviations; Foreword; 1 Introduction; 2 The Korean economy before and after the crisis; 3 What caused the crisis?; 4 US policy toward the crisis; 5 The monetary policy response to the crisis; 6 The fiscal policy response to the crisis; 7 Social impact of the crisis; 8 Financial restructuring; 9 Corporate restructuring; 10 Changes in the labor markets and industrial relations; 11 Transparency and social capital; 12 Social realignment, coalition change and political transformation
13 Recurrence of financial crises14 Reform and the risk of recurrence of crisis; References; Index
