The possible crucial role of international bank lending in transmitting adverse economic disturbance from developed economies to emerging economies in the 2008 - 2009 global financial crisis has placed capital flows into sharper scrutiny in academic and policy discussions. The authors construct...

The authors construct macro-and micro-panel data on international bank lending to six Asian economies - Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand - to analyze a number of objectives. The paper first examines the influence of critical determinants not only...

The objective of our paper is to provide an empirical platform to the debate on the macroeconomic consequences of large currency appreciations. Observing the experiences of six major Asian economies (the ASEAN-5 (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Singapore) and Korea) during the...

The possible crucial role of international bank lending in the transmission of adverse economic disturbance from advanced economies to emerging economies in the recent global financial crisis has once again placed this type of capital flows into sharper scrutiny both in academic and policy...