Asian Crisis and the Exposure of Large United States Firms (ICPSR 1217)

Version Date: May 2, 2000

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Principal Investigator(s):
William R. Emmons, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; Frank A. Schmid, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR01217.v1

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Summary

A deep financial and economic crisis ravaged many Asian nations during 1997 and 1998. In this article, the authors examine the impact of the crisis on corporate risk for a subset of large United States firms that are included in the Standard & Poor (S&P) 100 stock market index. They find that the Asian crisis changed many of these firms' exposure to stock market movements -- that is, their "betas," or sensitivity to stock market risk. In particular, the extent of a firm's sales exposure to Asia appears to be an important link through which the crisis affected beta. This effect is amplified by greater financial leverage.

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Emmons, William R., and Schmid, Frank A. Asian Crisis and the Exposure of Large United States Firms . Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2000-05-02. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR01217.v1

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2000-05-02

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2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Emmons, William R., and Frank A. Schmid. Asian Crisis and the Exposure of Large United States Firms . ICPSR01217-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2000-05-02. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR01217.v1
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  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.