Credit Crunch in East Asia: A Retrospective

Masahiro Enya, Akira Kohsaka and Mervin Pobre ()
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Mervin Pobre: Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University

No 04-04, Discussion Papers in Economics and Business from Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics

Abstract: In this paper, we explore the issue on credit crunch from a comparative perspective. Utilizing longer time series data, we investigate the existence of credit crunch in selected crisis-hit economies in East Asia over the period 1980-2002. We detected some episodes of credit crunch both before and after the Asian economic crisis. These episodes after the Crisis are somewhat different from those detected by previous studies on the issue. We, then, review the credit-crunch episodes in the broad macroeconomic context in order to assess our results in the longer-run perspective. We are well aware that financial liberalization has changed the financial environments of these countries more or less in due course. Even so, the mixed results we obtained on the existence of credit crunch do not suggest that the impact of the austerity programs on financial intermediation after the Asian Crisis was ambiguous. On the contrary, they implied that the impact of the programs were so severe that credit crunch or supply retrenchment was overwhelmed by a sharp fall in credit demand because of real and expected persistent overall economic depression.

Keywords: credit crunch; East Asia; Asian Economic Crisis; disequilibrium analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E5 O11 O53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2004-03
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