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Economic Liberalization and Integration in East Asia$
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Yung Chul Park

Print publication date: 2005

Print ISBN-13: 9780199276776

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: February 2006

DOI: 10.1093/0199276773.001.0001

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Weaknesses of the Corporate and Financial Sector

Chapter:
(p. 42 ) 6 Weaknesses of the Corporate and Financial Sector
Source:
Economic Liberalization and Integration in East Asia
Author(s):

Yung Chul Park

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/0199276773.003.0006

Two of the most distinctive characteristics of East Asian corporations are the concentration of ownership among a few large families, and the affiliation of many corporations with an industrial group. These provided a number of advantages including the capacity to pool internal resources and information, and easy financing. However, the Asian crisis dramatically altered the positive assessment of the role of large corporations in economic development because of their malaise in corporate governance, bank-based financial market, and crony capitalism.

Keywords:   corporate governance, crony capitalism, moral hazard, banks, financial system, structural weakness

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