Economic research is frequently slow in getting into print.
And that delay keeps it from being as useful and as timely as it could be. To overcome that hurdle, IBER publishes several series of working papers to speed up making research results readily and widely available. Much of the impact of this paper was due to its timeliness, and having it available on the IBER web page made it accessible to a much broader number of scholars and policy makers than would otherwise have been possible. The Asian crisis was the third financial crisis of the 1990s. Even more than its predecessors it raised questions about the international community's approach to crisis prevention and crisis management.