TY - BOOK ED - Centre for Economic Policy Research, London. TI - Financial crises and Asia SN - 1898128367 U1 - 338.5'42 PY - 1998///. CY - London : PB - Centre for Economic Policy Research, KW - Financial crises KW - Capital market KW - Investments KW - Economic history KW - International economic relations KW - Asia N1 - N2 - Asset price volatility on world financial markets and foreign exchange markets has increased significantly since the Mexican peso crisis of December 1994. The Asian financial crisis is still underway, and there are clear signs that it too will leave significant costs in its wake." "This is a report of a February 1998 CEPR conference that addressed these issues with particular emphasis on the important lessons that can be learnt from the recent events in Asia. The report contains an essay of the conference by Robert Chote, Economics Editor of the Financial Times, together with non-technical summaries of the papers presented ER -