Thailand: Financial Sector Reform and the East Asian Crises: Financial Sector Reform and the East Asian Crises

The focus of this study is the supervisory and regulatory framework for bank supervision in Thailand, and the Thai authorities' efforts to restructure the Thai banking system. It examines the obstacles to restructuring, which include economic difficulties in the 1990s.

List of contents

Foreword. Preface. 1: The Backdrop: The Underpinnings of the Modern Thai Bank Supervisory System and Related Governmental Laws and Policies. 2: The Historical Context pre 1973: Dysfunctional Influences Shaping the Modern Thai Banking system. 3: Attempting to Address Fundamentals through Reactions to Recent Thai Financial Crises (late 1970s--mid 1990s): Substantive Structural Reform or Facade. 4: The Thai Financial and Economic Crisis of 1997-8: An Opportunity to Re-address the Fundamentals. 5: Conclusion: Moving Forward Towards a Modernised and 'Safe and Sound' Banking Sector Environment in Thailand. Bibliography. Appendices. Index.

Product details

• Authors: Tull Traisaorat, Traisorat, Tull Traisorat
• Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2000
• EAN: 9789041197344
• ISBN: 978-90-411-9734-4
• No. of pages: 430
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 816 g
• Series: International Banking, Finance; International Banking, Finance
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Taxes