The 1997 Asian financial crisis inflicted serious economic damages to many Asian countries. However, China was conspicuously avoided being severely attacked by this crisis. This study compares the growth patterns of foreign short-term debt, the foreign debt structure and short-term foreign...

One of the puzzling phenomena in the emerging financial market was that financial crises often took place in middle-income countries rather than in low-income countries. This study empirically studies the financial crises between 1993 and 2003 and finds that the over-reliance on foreign debt,...