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The Korean Crisis: What Did We Know and When Did We Know It? What Stress Tests of the Corporate Sector Reveal

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  • Ms. Meral Karasulu
  • Mr. Matthew T Jones

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The objective of this paper is to provide a retrospective assessment of our ability to have predicted the impact of the 1997 crisis on the Korean corporate sector. We perform some simple stress tests on the aggregate balance sheets and income statements of the corporate sector to determine what could have been foreseen before the onset of the crisis. Our results show that data available in mid-1997 clearly showed that the corporate sector was very sensitive to various shocks, particularly interest rate shocks. Had stress tests been performed at the time, they would have revealed that the corporate sector was highly vulnerable to adverse economic developments. Our findings suggest that close surveillance of corporate sector balance sheets can play a useful role in understanding potential financial vulnerabilities.

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  • Ms. Meral Karasulu & Mr. Matthew T Jones, 2006. "The Korean Crisis: What Did We Know and When Did We Know It? What Stress Tests of the Corporate Sector Reveal," IMF Working Papers 2006/114, International Monetary Fund.
    • Handle: RePEc:imf:imfwpa:2006/114
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    Cited by:

    1. Love, Inessa, 2010. "Corporate vulnerability and bank stability : evidence from Jordan," Policy Research Working Paper Series 5502, The World Bank.
    2. Peter Lindner & Sung Eun Jung, 2014. "Corporate Vulnerabilities in India and Banks' Loan Performance," IMF Working Papers 2014/232, International Monetary Fund.
    3. Vojtech Siuda, 2020. "A Top-down Stress-testing Framework for the Nonfinancial Corporate Sector," Working Papers 2020/12, Czech National Bank.
    4. Ms. Maria Gonzalez, 2012. "Nonfinancial Firms in Latin America: A Source of Vulnerability?," IMF Working Papers 2012/279, International Monetary Fund.

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