Financial Crisis and Credit Crunch as a Result of Inefficient Financial Intermediation-with Reference to the Asian Financial Crisis /

This paper develops a model of private debt financing under inefficient financial intermediation. It suggests a mechanism that can generate the following sequence of events observed in the recent Asian crisis: A period of relatively low capital flow despite a steady improvement in economic fundament...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chen, Zhaohui
Other Authors: Chan-Lau, Jorge
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1998.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1998/127
Online Access:Full text available on IMF