IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/phd/dpaper/dp_1999-09.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Impacts of the Southeast Asian Financial Crisis on the Philippine Manufacturing Sector

Author

Listed:
  • Lamberte, Mario B.
  • Orbeta, Aniceto Jr. C.
  • Cororaton, Caesar B.
  • Guerrero, Margarita F.

Abstract

This study examines the impacts of the Southeast Asian financial crisis that struck in July 1997 on the Philippine industries and their responses to such crisis using firm level data from a sample of 541 manufacturing establishments. The survey results clearly show that the capacity utilization rate of the Philippine manufacturing firms started to decline even before the crisis struck in July 1997, and that it continued to drop as the crisis deepened. Thus, the current capacity underutilization rate may be attributed to both cyclical and structural factors. The results of this study do not provide a clear evidence on the existence of a supply-side credit crunch during the crisis period. The significant drop in capacity utilization rate and output of firms during the crisis period would have required a large labor lay-off. However, to minimize the laying off of labor, firms resorted to other means, such as reducing workweek or days, applying forced vacation leave and freezing salary increases, to save some jobs. The study recommends that the government institute some measures to stimulate aggregate demand for 1999. Both monetary and fiscal policies are required to support such expansionary policy.

Suggested Citation

  • Lamberte, Mario B. & Orbeta, Aniceto Jr. C. & Cororaton, Caesar B. & Guerrero, Margarita F., 1999. "Impacts of the Southeast Asian Financial Crisis on the Philippine Manufacturing Sector," Discussion Papers DP 1999-09, Philippine Institute for Development Studies.
    • Handle: RePEc:phd:dpaper:dp_1999-09
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.pids.gov.ph/publication/discussion-papers/impacts-of-the-southeast-asian-financial-crisis-on-the-philippine-manufacturing-sector
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Assaf Razin, 2001. "Comment on "How Japanese Subsidiaries in Asia Responded to the Regional Crisis: An Empirical Analysis Based on the MITI Survey"," NBER Chapters, in: Regional and Global Capital Flows: Macroeconomic Causes and Consequences, pages 309-310, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Mario B. Lamberte, 2001. "Comment on "How Japanese Subsidiaries in Asia Responded to the Regional Crisis: An Empirical Analysis Based on the MITI Survey"," NBER Chapters, in: Regional and Global Capital Flows: Macroeconomic Causes and Consequences, pages 304-309, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    3. Kyoji Fukao, 2001. "How Japanese Subsidiaries in Asia Responded to the Regional Crisis: An Empirical Analysis Based on the MITI Survey," NBER Chapters, in: Regional and Global Capital Flows: Macroeconomic Causes and Consequences, pages 267-304, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    4. Orbeta, Aniceto Jr. C., 2000. "Human Resource Aspect in the Medium-Term National Action Agenda for Productivity (MNAAP)," Discussion Papers DP 2000-22, Philippine Institute for Development Studies.
    5. David, Cristina C., 1999. "Constraints to Food Security: The Philippine Case," Philippine Journal of Development JPD 1999 Vol. XXVI No.2-a, Philippine Institute for Development Studies.
    6. Beja, Jr., Edsel, 2009. "The Philippines on debt row," MPRA Paper 16553, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    7. Lamberte, Mario B., 1999. "A Second Look at Credit Crunch: The Philippine Case," Discussion Papers DP 1999-23, Philippine Institute for Development Studies.
    8. Milo, Melanie S., 1999. "Contagion Effects of the Asian Crisis, Policy Responses and their Social Implications," Philippine Journal of Development JPD 1999 Vol. XXVI No.2-c, Philippine Institute for Development Studies.
    9. David, Cristina C., 1999. "Constraints to Food Security: The Philippine Case," Discussion Papers DP 1999-31, Philippine Institute for Development Studies.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:phd:dpaper:dp_1999-09. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Aniceto Orbeta (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/pidgvph.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.