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Corporate Governance, Competition And Finance: Re-Thinking Lessons From The Asian Crisis

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Jack Glen
Ajit Singh

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This paper critically examines the Greenspan-Summers-IMF thesis concerning the Asian crisis, which suggested that the fundamental causes of the Asian crisis lay in the microeconomic behavior of economic agents in these societies - in the Asian way of doing business. The paper concentrates on corporate governance and competition in emerging markets and outlines the international significance of these issues in the context of the New International Financial Architecture and the Doha Development Round at the WTO. It reviews new analyses and fresh evidence on corporate governance, corporate finance and on competition in emerging and mature markets, to suggest that the basic thesis above is not valid and the consequent policy proposals are therefore deeply flawed.

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Keywords: Corporate governance; competition; emerging markets;

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G3 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance
L20 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - General
O5 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies

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  1. Ajit Singh & Ann Zammit, 2006. "Corporate Governance, Crony capitalism and Economic Crisis: Should the US Business Model replace the Asian Way of 'Doing Business'?," ESRC Centre for Business Research - Working Papers wp329, ESRC Centre for Business Research. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Ajit Singh & Jack Glen & Ann Zammitt & Rafael De Hoyos & Alaka Singh & Bruce Weisse, 2005. "Shareholder value maximisation, stock market and new technology: should the US corporate model be the universal standard," ESRC Centre for Business Research - Working Papers wp315, ESRC Centre for Business Research. [Downloadable!]
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