Financial Liberalization
How Far, How Fast?

This volume provides a rounded view of financial liberalization after the collapses in East Asia.

Gerard Caprio (Edited by), Patrick Honohan (Edited by), Joseph E. Stiglitz (Edited by)

9780521030991, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 23 November 2006

320 pages, 48 b/w illus. 63 tables
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.501 kg

The goal of this volume is to bring a more broad-based empirical experience than has been customary to the theoretical debate on how financial systems should be managed. This is achieved not only with cross-country economic studies, but also with an account of carefully chosen and widely contrasting country cases, drawn from Europe, Latin America, Africa, East and South Asia and the former Soviet Union. The widespread financial crises of recent years have all too dramatically illustrated the shortcomings of financial policy under liberalization. The complexity of the issues mocks any idea that a standard liberalization template will be universally effective. The evidence here described confirms that policy recommendations need to take careful account of country conditions. The volume is the outcome of a research project sponsored by the World Bank's Development Economics Research Group.

List of contributors
Preface
Part I. Analytics: 1. Introduction and overview: the case for liberalization and some drawbacks Gerald Caprio, James A. Hanson and Patrick Honohan
2. Robust financial restraint Patrick Honohan and Joeseph E. Stiglitz
Part II. Cross-Country Evidence: 3. How interest rates changed under liberalization: a statistical review Patrick Honohan
4. Financial liberalization and financial fragility Asli Demirgüç-Kunt and Enrica Detragiache
Part III. Liberalization Experience from Contrasting Starting Points: 5. Financial restraints and liberalization in postwar Europe Charles Wyplosz
6. The role of poorly phased liberalization in Korea's financial crisis Yoon Je Cho
7. Interest rate spreads in Mexico during liberalization Fernando Montes-Negret and Luis Landa
8. The financial sector in transition: tales of success and failure Fabrizio Coricelli
9. Indonesia and India: contrasting approaches to repression and liberalization James A. Hanson
10. Reforming finance in a low income country: Uganda Irfan Aleem and Louis Kasekande
Index.

Subject Areas: International business [KJK], Banking [KFFK], Development economics & emerging economies [KCM], International finance [KCLF], International economics [KCL]