“…Yet, while the region itself did not suffer from a prior synchronized shock, individual economies had their own individual experiences with prior recessions in the 1980s and 1990s, some more recent than others. Hong Kong suffered a recession in 1995, Indonesia in 1992, the Philippines in 1991, Malaysia and Singapore in 1985, South Korea in 1980, and Thailand in 1979 (Cardarelli, Elekdag, and Lall, ; Gupta and Miniane, ; Laeven and Valencia, ; Reinhart and Rogoff, ). In addition, compared to the Asian economies, capital inflows and economic growth rates were lower in the United States and more volatile in the Latin American countries.…”