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Chaebol, Financial Liberalization, and Economic Crisis: Transformation of Quasi-Internal Organization in Korea

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  • Chung H Lee

    (Department of Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa)

  • Keun Lee
  • Kangkoo Lee

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This paper argues that the Korean governmentís policy with regard to financial deregulation and liberalization was endogenously determined, being largely influenced by the interest politics of perhaps the most powerful interest group in Korea, chaebol. It also argues that the cause of Koreaís financial crisis of 1997-98 cannot be analyzed without first examining the influence of chaebol on the post-1993 financial liberalization, which planted the seeds of the crisis. The paper concludes that financial liberalization undertaken in a haphazard manner, manipulated by a few dominant players in the economy runs into the danger of producing an outcome worse than before.

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  • Chung H Lee & Keun Lee & Kangkoo Lee, 2000. "Chaebol, Financial Liberalization, and Economic Crisis: Transformation of Quasi-Internal Organization in Korea," Working Papers 200004, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:hai:wpaper:200004
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    2. Chung Lee, 2005. "The Political Economy of Institutional Reform in Korea," Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 10(3), pages 257-277.
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    11. Lee, Keun, 2020. "Varieties of Capitalism and re-thinking the East Asian model of economic growth after the Covid-19 pandemic: Rebalancing shareholder and stakeholder capitalism," MPRA Paper 110770, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    JEL classification:

    • G28 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Government Policy and Regulation
    • L52 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Industrial Policy; Sectoral Planning Methods
    • O53 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Asia including Middle East

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