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Destructive creativity of Wall St. and the East Asian response / Michael Heng Siam-Heng, Lim Tai Wei.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heng, Michael S. H., 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Financial crises--East Asia--History--20th century.
- Financial crises.
- Financial crises--History--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (267 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Destructive creativity of Wall Street and the East Asian response
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 United States, globalization, deregulation, loose monetary policy, and excessive liquidity. This book seeks to address the critical issues in deregulation, derivatives, leveraging, remuneration systems, and rating agencies. This book will also examine Asia's response and why Asian economies have bee
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-247) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612442872
- 9781282442870
- 1282442872
- 9789814273794
- 9814273791
- OCLC:
- 588987308
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