In November 2009, the Saw Centre for Financial Studies, NUS Business School, and the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, jointly organized the International Conference on Managing Economic Crisis in East Asia. The seven chapters included in this book consist of a selection of the papers presented in the conference, and subsequently revised for publication. Chapter 1 was specifically written by the volume editors to present the salient features of the important subject covered in the book.

We would like to thank the chapter writers for their excellent cooperation for presenting their papers in the conference and, more importantly, for revising the papers for publication. Our appreciation also goes to Mrs Triena Ong of ISEAS Publications Unit for overseeing the expeditious publication of the book. We are delighted for ISEAS to be a co-publisher.