Insolvency in the Corporate Sector and Financial Crisis in Korea

Joon-Kyung Kim () and Chung H. Lee
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Joon-Kyung Kim: Korea Development Institute and University of Hawaii at Manoa
Chung H. Lee: European Institute of Japanese Studies, Postal: Stockholm School of Economics, P.O. Box 6501, S-113 83 Stockholm, Sweden

No 122, EIJS Working Paper Series from Stockholm School of Economics, The European Institute of Japanese Studies

Abstract: The paper shows that between the late 1980s and 1997, the year when Korea was engulfed in a financial crisis, its corporate-sector profitability was on a decreasing trend, albeit short-term ups and downs. The evidence presented in the paper suggests that Korea’s corporate and financial sectors had been highly vulnerable to a crisis for some years before 1997 and the actual timing of the crisis was triggered by the financial crisis in Thailand in July 1997 and its contagion effect.

Keywords: Asian crisis; Korean economy; corporate sector insolvency. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G28 L52 O53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2001-04
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