Yung Chul Park is distinguished professor in the Division of International Studies at Korea University. He previously served as the chief economic adviser to the president of Korea (1987-1988), as president of the Korea Development Institute (1986-1987), and as president of the Korea Institute of Finance (1992-1998). Hugh Patrick is director of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business at Columbia Business School, codirector of Columbia University's APEC Study Center, and its Robert D. Calkins Professor of International Business Emeritus.

• Preface 1. An Introductory Overview, by Hugh Patrick 2. Financial Reform in China: Progress and Challenges, by Yiping Huang, Xun Wang, Bijun Wang, and Nian Lin 3. Japan: Ongoing Financial Deregulation, Structural Change, and Performance, 1990-2010, by Edward J Lincoln 4. Financial Development and Liberalization in Korea: 1980-2011, by Yung Chul Park 5. Banking, Capital Flows, and Financial Cycles: Common Threads in the 2007-09 Crises, by Young-Hwa Seok and Hyun Song Shin Index

Integrating research on all three target countries, this volume provides a clear explication of the way financial markets impact the real sector and are shaped by political policies. The book is written clearly enough to be easily understood by a wide range of academic readers, whether undergraduates or graduate students engaged in research, and will also be a valuable reference for experts in the field. -- Satyananda J. Gabriel, Mount Holyoke College In juxtaposing the financial systems of China, Japan, and Korea over the past two decades, this book provides some striking contrasts in their evolution and responses to the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 and the U.S.-induced crisis of 2007-09. It raises important issues about countries' interaction with a global financial system largely beyond their control. -- Barry Bosworth, Brookings Institution Finance and its regulation are controversial, and nowhere are they more controversial than in Asia. But no one can claim more experience and knowledge of the controversy than Yung Chul Park and Hugh Patrick. This volume will be of equal interest to China, Japan, and Korea specialists, and general readers alike. -- Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley