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Post-Crisis Financial Reform in Korea: A Critical Appraisal

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  • Hong-Bum Kim

    (Geongsang National University)

  • Chung H. Lee

    (Department of Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa)

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In the aftermath of the economic crisis of 1997-98 South Korea has undertaken a number of financial reforms under IMF auspices. One of such reforms was in financial supervision, which created the Financial Supervisory Commission and the Financial Supervisory Service. In spite of these reforms Korea has recently experienced a costly financial instability relating to credit-card companies and household debts. Korea’s success in bringing about rapid economic recovery from the crisis may have lessened, as suggested by the World Bank, the urgency for full financial reform. This paper, however, argues that the newly created supervisory agencies, although created as independent agencies, have not in fact functioned as such and thus failed to carry out proper supervision over credit-card companies. It is argued that those agencies have not been able to function independently due to institutional constraints imposed on them by other extant, formal as well as informal, institutions in Korea.

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  • Hong-Bum Kim & Chung H. Lee, 2004. "Post-Crisis Financial Reform in Korea: A Critical Appraisal," Working Papers 200410, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:hai:wpaper:200410
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    1. Thomas F. Cargill, 2005. "A tale of two monetary policies: Korea and Japan," FRBSF Economic Letter, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, issue apr15.

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    Keywords

    Financial reform; financial supervision; institutions;
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    • G2 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services

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