TY  - JOUR
AU  - Kane,Edward J.
TI  - Capital Movements, Banking Insolvency, and Silent Runs in the Asian Financial Crisis
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 7514
PY  - 2000
Y2  - January 2000
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w7514
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w7514.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Edward J. Kane
2325 E Calle Los Altos
Tucson, AZ 85718
Tel: 520-299-5066
E-Mail: edward.kane@bc.edu
AB  - This paper supplies an agency-cost and contestable-markets perspective on the financial policies that triggered the Asian financial crisis.  The agency-cost analysis hypothesizes that individual-country regulators knew that politically directed loans had made their banks insolvent, but purposefully gambled that deregulation could allow the insolvent banks to grow their way out of trouble. The contestable-markets paradigm sets this gamble in the context of offshore innovations in financial technology and regulatory systems that made it progressively easier for worried Asian citizens to move funds to foreign institutions.  These perspectives portray the simultaneous breakdown of repressive financial systems as a technology-led victory of market forces over longstanding government efforts to wall out foreign financial competition.
ER  -