Synopses & Reviews
This volume provides a rounded view of financial liberalization after the collapses in East Asia.
Table of Contents
List of contributors; Preface; Part I. Analytics: 1. Introduction and overview: the case for liberalization and some drawbacks Gerald Caprio, James A. Hanson and Patrick Honohan; 2. Robust financial restraint Patrick Honohan and Joeseph E. Stiglitz; Part II. Cross-Country Evidence: 3. How interest rates changed under liberalization: a statistical review Patrick Honohan; 4. Financial liberalization and financial fragility Asli Demirgüç-Kunt and Enrica Detragiache; Part III. Liberalization Experience from Contrasting Starting Points: 5. Financial restraints and liberalization in postwar Europe Charles Wyplosz; 6. The role of poorly phased liberalization in Koreaâs financial crisis Yoon Je Cho; 7. Interest rate spreads in Mexico during liberalization Fernando Montes-Negret and Luis Landa; 8. The financial sector in transition: tales of success and failure Fabrizio Coricelli; 9. Indonesia and India: contrasting approaches to repression and liberalization James A. Hanson; 10. Reforming finance in a low income country: Uganda Irfan Aleem and Louis Kasekande; Index.