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Enhancing Bank Supervision in Asia : Lessons Learned from the Financial Crisis

Zamorski, Michael Joseph - 2015

The global financial crisis underlined that sound and effective bank regulation is vital to financial stability … outbreak. The crisis reflected the failure of regulatory authorities to keep pace with financial innovation. Bank supervision … had been weak by any measure. Supervisors did not conduct regular onsite bank inspections or examinations of sufficient …

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Fiscal Policy And Growth in Developing Asia

Abdon, Arnelyn May; Estrada, Gemma Esther; Lee, Minsoo; … - 2014

In this paper we empirically explore the relationship between fiscal policy and economic growth in developing Asia. The region's overall level of taxes and government spending are substantially lower than those prevailing in advanced economies. Nevertheless, there are conceptual grounds why...

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The relationship between structural change and inequality: A conceptual overview with special reference to developing Asia

Aizenman, Joshua; Lee, Minsoo; Park, Donghyun - 2012

Structural change has a far-reaching impact on inequality. It exposes the population to challenges and opportunities. Foreign trade and technological progress have been widely put forth as a structural driver of inequality. Broader structural change, such as demographic transition, can also...

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Prospects for Services Trade Negotiations

Schott, Jeffrey J.; Lee, Minsoo; Muir, Julia - 2012

Trade and investment in services are difficult to measure, and the regulatory barriers that inhibit the free flow of services are hard to quantify. As a result, very little attention has been paid to dismantling barriers to services trade and investment. Rather, free trade negotiations tend to...

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Economic Impact of Eurozone Sovereign Debt Crisis on Developing Asia

Lee, Minsoo; Park, Donghyun; Abdon, Arnelyn; Estrada, Gemma - 2013

The European Union (EU) has traditionally been an important economic partner for Asia. In addition to absorbing a significant share of the region's exports, the EU has been a major source of foreign direct investment and other capital flows into the region. In light of such close economic...

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Intellectual property rights, quality of institutions, and foreign direct investment into developing Asia

Lee, Minsoo; Park, Donghyun - 2013

Developing Asian countries are strengthening their intellectual property rights (IPR) regime as they themselves become producers of intellectual property. At the same time, developing Asia has attracted large amounts of foreign direct investment (FDI) and this trend is expected to continue in...

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Sovereign risk, elections, and contagion

Li, Chi; Balding, Christopher; Lee, Minsoo - 2013

This paper aims to quantify the political risk effect and its different economic implications in normal and crisis situations through the proxy analysis of election and the sovereign bond spreads. Our study leads to three main findings. First, in normal economic situations, elections and...

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Realizing the potential of public-private partnerships to advance Asia's infrastructure development

Deep, Akash (ed.); Kim, Jung-Wook (ed.); Lee, Minsoo (ed.) - Asian Development Bank; Han gug gae bal yeon gu won - 2019

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Macroprudential policy frameworks in developing Asian economies

Lee, Minsoo; Gaspar, Raymond; Villaruel, Mai Lin C. - 2017

Over the last decade, developing Asia’s deeper global financial linkages have been accompanied by greater financial integration. As the region becomes more interconnected, a key priority is to ensure that the dynamic environment is supported by better coordinated and potentially consistent...

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Effects of temperature shocks on economic growth and welfare in Asia

Lee, Minsoo; Villaruel, Mai Lin; Gaspar, Raymond - 2016

Using the Burke, Hsiang, and Miguel (2015) framework, we examine the nonlinear response effect of economic growth to historic temperature and precipitation fluctuations. We confirm that aside from the significant effect of rising temperature on agricultural production, industrial production and...

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