The impact of the economic crisis on East Asia : policy responses from four economies / edited by Daigee Shaw, Bih Jane Liu.

"In association with the Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART I. Financial system and financial crisis -- 1. The global financial crisis: lessons for Taiwan -- 2. A perspective on the US dollar after the current financial crisis: lessons from the fall of the pound sterling and the gold standard after World War I -- 3. De-privatization? Case studies of government banks' performance in developing countries during the financial crisis -- PART II. Impacts, consequences and policy responses -- 4. Why world exports are so susceptible to the economic crisis: the prevailing 'export overshooting' phenomenon, with particular reference to Taiwan -- 5. The impact of the global financial crisis on the Taiwanese economy and its industrial policy in response -- 6. The American crisis and Korean financial distress -- 7. Why was Japan hit so hard by the global financial crisis? -- 8. China's policy responses to the global financial crisis -- PART III. Policy constraints -- 9. Fiscal discipline in the recovery from a global financial crisis -- 10. A challenge to sustainable development: the dual crisis of energy and the economy.