Hong-Bum Kim (Gyeongsang National University, Seoul, Korea) Chung Lee () (Department of Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Abstract
In the wake of the economic crisis of 1997-98 South Korea undertook a number of reforms in financial supervision. In spite of these reforms doubts have been raised as to whether Korea has in fact succeeded in creating a system of financial supervision capable of dealing with certain risks and responding to new challenges appropriately. This paper argues that because of institutional interdependency a successful institutional reform requires changing not only the particular institution at issue but also other inter-related institutions; that Korea’s post-crisis reform in financial supervision was limited to changing formal institutions for financial supervision; and that further reforms are needed in other institutions—formal as well as informal—if Korea is to further improve financial supervision.
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Paper provided by University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number
200510.