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Lessons from the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, the example of South Korea and other countries.
05/09/2006
The lessons S. Korea shares with the G20 from its banking crisis in the late 1990's, with nonperforming loans of banks at 40-50% of GDP according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Banks had to be merged, closed or nationalized using BIS standards for reserves in a short time. It also led to asevere contraction in the Korean economy as banks not only stopped making loans but called in outstanding loans. This contraction reached minus 7% in the second and third quarters of 1998. The bigger challenge now is how to resolve the bad asset problem without seeing such huge hits to the American economy which would further depress the global economy and have unforeseen consequences. Already Comerice department estimates are for a 6.3% contraction in the US econmy for 4th quarter 2008.
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