Banks, the IMF, and the Asian Crisis

Bong-Chan Kho and René Stulz

No 7361, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper examines the impact of the Asian crisis on bank stocks across four Western countries and six Asian countries. In the second half of 1997, Western banks experienced positive returns. In contrast East Asian bank indices incurred losses in excess of 60% in each of the crisis countries. Most of this poor performance is explained by the exposure of the banks to general stock market movements in their countries. Currency exposures affected banks adversely beyond their stock market impact only in Indonesia and the Philippines. Except for the Korean program, IMF programs had little effect on bank values. The announcement of the Korean program increased shareholder wealth at the U.S. banks with the highest reported exposure in Korea by about 7% and had a favorable effect on bank shareholder wealth in all the countries in our sample but one. There is no evidence that the Korean IMF program had a positive impact on banks without exposure to Korea and hence our results do not support the argument that such programs reduce systemic risk.

JEL-codes: F34 F36 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999-09
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Published as Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Vol. 8, no. 2 (May 2000): 177-216

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