Destructive creativity of Wall St. and the East Asian response

Destructive creativity of Wall St. and the East Asian response /

The current financial crisis provides a valuable occasion for the world to re-examine the grand statements of wisdom which dominate the financial world for a long time. The impact is extremely serious as a result of the convergence of a number of factors such as huge current account deficits of the...

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Main Author: Heng, Michael S. H., 1948-
Other Authors: Lim, Tai-Wei
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, 2009
Subjects:
Financial crises > East Asia > History > 20th century.
Financial crises > History > 21st century.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Potted history of banking and finance
  • In the shadow of depression?
  • Financial engineering, or what can go wrong will
  • Financial architecture, 1
  • Financial architecture, 2
  • Reforming the IMF : from fire fighting to fire prevention
  • Regulation and deregulation
  • Back to basics
  • Counter-cyclical measures
  • Some deeper issues
  • The 1997 Asian financial crisis
  • Ten years after the Asian financial crisis : positive lessons learned
  • Ten years after the Asian financial crisis : negative lessons learned
  • Deconstructing the state-led model
  • Reforming the state-led model
  • The global financial crisis 2008
  • Impact and immediate response to the crisis in East Asia
  • Coordinating with the region and the world
  • ASEAN economic regionalism : a regional financial architecture in the making?
  • Forming an economic community
  • A shift in power center?
  • What now?
  • Coping with challenges.

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