Different Fate of Thailand and Hong Kong During 1997 Asian Financial Crisis The 1997 Asian financial crisis was a disaster that obsessed much of Southeast Asian countries. The financial crisis began in July 1997, and rose to worldwide economic meltdown due to financial contagion. Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea were the most affected by the financial crisis. Hong Kong, Malaysia, and the Philippines also had abundant negative effects by the financial disaster. China, Singapore, and Vietnam were less
Investment is one of the most essential ways to manage and appreciate capital. It is well known that investment has risk, and higher return with higher risk. The risk is coming from a bunch of factors. Systematic risk and unsystematic risk are two terms which distinguish the effective range of the investment market. Systematic risk describes widely effect which individual cannot manage, control and avoid. What people can do is to reduce lost to the minimum. Unsystematic risk is also called as “ special
The Indonesian economic crises that emerged out of the greater Asian Financial Crises of 1997 is often presented as an example of an International Monetary Fund (IMF) project that created problems for the receiving nation. As the video Globalization at a Crossroads stated in its final words, “It supported the case that economic globalization actually increased economic instability.” Indeed, there were immediate, and in some cases, irreversible consequences of the IMF’s intervention into Indonesia’s
Alan Greenspan, born in New York City on March 6, 1926, grew up surrounded by economics as his father of Romanian Jewish decent worked as a stockbroker and financial analyst. When he was five years old, Greenspan expressed his skill in mathematics by reciting baseball batting averages and performing large calculations in his head. He attended George Washington High School, where he played clarinet and saxophone with classmate and future musician Stan Getz. After graduating, Greenspan studied clarinet
Alex Gelinas Professor Garcia Eng M01A 12-13-12 Steps Toward a Recovery of the Global Financial Crisis The world is facing the worst financial disaster since the Great Depression. Millions all over the world have lost a countless number of jobs, seen cuts in their hours, wages, and benefits. In 2008, banks and financial institutions became bankrupt because of the unaffordable loans they lent out. Many lost their homes to foreclosures because of they could not pay off their loans. Those who invested
THE FINANCIAL CRISIS Preparing the grounds: The role of global macro policies and the poor US regulatory framework Introduction The financial crisis from 2007-2009 is beeing caused at two levels: global macro policies affecting liquidity and a poor regulatory framework 1 The policies affecting liquidity created a situation like a dam overfilled with flooding water 2 The regulatory system have been the faults in the dam, directing the liquidity into the real estate market
International Capital Mobility “Globalization is today's reality. Like it or not, the move to a world economy is a fact of life. At some point in the 1990s the process achieved critical mass and people started to sit up and take notice. Many were apprehensive. Today, almost all of us are aware that our lives are being shaped by an interconnected world economy of cross-border flows of trade, finance and technology. In our hearts, we know that there is no going back.” -Maria
2008 Economics Noble Prize winner and Princeton University professor, Paul Krugman, translates the roots of modern and prior financial crisis economics. In his book, The Return of Depression Economics and The Crisis of 2008, Krugman first educates the reader of historical and foreign financial crises which allows for a deeper understanding of the modern financial system. The context provided from the historical analysis proves to be a crucial prospective in such a way that the rest of Krugman’s narrative
of this crisis. Nothing that I have heard or read since then has convinced me otherwise. If anything, disagreements have become more intense, in the meantime. This fact hampers our ability to learn the proper lessons from this crisis. This fact also means that it is useful for me to declare my own biases in advance. Conventionally, causes of this financial crisis include some or all of the four following elements: macroeconomic policies, financial-sector supervision and regulation, financial engineering
Discuss economic and social change in the region with reference to ONE Southeast Asian state. Economic and social change within Indonesia Introduction After over a quarter century of sustained economic growth, Indonesia was struck by a major economic crisis at the end of the 20th Century. This paper examines the impact of the crisis on economic and social change within the region. (Cameron 1999) The crisis, which worked its way through many of