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Financial Fragility and Instability in Indonesia (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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Financial Fragility and Instability in Indonesia (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
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This highly relevant study provides an incisive analysis of a
critical phase in recent East Asian financial history, exploring
the underlying causes of the financial crisis that struck Indonesia
during the second half of 1997. Matsumoto's extensive commercial
experience in Indonesian finance during these critical years,
allows him to skilfully argue that the roots of the crisis lay in
the period of capital liberalization undertaken during the boom
years from 1994 to 1997 which encouraged the development of fragile
and unstable financial structures, involving increased corporate
leverage, reliance on external debt, and the introduction of
riskier and more complicated financial instruments and
transactions. In-depth fieldwork data and four detailed case
studies illuminate the microeconomic foundations of the crisis,
showing how Indonesian capitalists sought to liquidate their
Indonesian assets without losing control of their corporate
empires, by taking advantage of increased access to foreign loans
and complex financial re-engineering, actions which ultimately
precipitated instability and crisis throughout the entire financial
system. Finally, it reflects upon the policy implications of this
episode, putting forward the case for comprehensive capital
controls for open and developing economies until they establish
appropriate financial institutions to monitor and manage the level
of indebtedness and the volatility of capitalists' behaviour.
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