Causes and Impact of the Asian Financial Crisis

MALCOLM DOWLING Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne, Australia SIRILAKSANA KHOMAN Professor and Dean, Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University, Bangkok JINGPING LI Economist, Department of Statistics and Economics, Renmin University, Beijing, China PHAM NGOC LONG Senior Expert, Central Economic Committee, Government's Office, Hanoi, Vietnam TONY NAUGHTON Professor of International Finance, Griffith University, Australia NEVILLE NORMAN Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne J.O.N. PERKINS Emeritus Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne ERIC RAMSTETTER Co-director, International Center for the Study of Asian Development, Kitakyushu, Japan GUY TA Lecturer, School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia YANYUN ZHAO Professor of Economics, Renmin University, Beijing, China.

• Dedication Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors The Asian Financial Crisis: An Overview; T Van Hoa Causes and Prescriptions for the Asian Financial Crisis ; T Van Hoa Fundamental Causes of the Asian Financial Crisis: An Econometric Study; T.Van Hoa The Asian Financial Crisis and Prospects for Trade and Business with Thailand; S.Khoman The Korean Financial Crisis: Is Bail-out a Solution?; C.Harvie Financial Crisis in Indonesia: The Role of Good Governance; C.Harvie The Asian Financial Crisis and Singapore: Can it Avoid the Contagion?; G.Ta China: A Giant with an Achilles Heel?; Z.Yanyun & L.Jingping Vietnam and the Asian Financial Crisis: How to Avoid the Contagion; P.N.Long & T.Van Hoa Taiwan: An Island State with Economic Insulation?; T.Naughton Turmoil in Asset Markets and the Prospects for Foreign Transnationals in Southeast Asia; E.Ramstetter MICE in the Meltdown: An Economic Analysis of the Impact of Developments in Asia on the Meeting and Conference Industries; N.Norman Some Implications of the Asian Economic Crisis for the Non-Asian World; J.Perkins The Asian Currency and Economic Crisis: Macro-economic Performance and Policy; M.Dowling The Current State of the Asian Crisis and Prospects; T Van Hoa Index