Since there are fewer worries about depreciation in the NT dollar, interest rates can fall, "says Casper Shih. In Shih's opinion, if the defaults crisis had occurred a few months earlier when the government was struggling to support both the stock market and the exchange rate, Taiwan's situation could have been like that of other East Asian nations, unable to either advance or retreat.
「這幸虧是拜美元走軟，台幣沒有貶值的後顧之憂，才可以放手調低利率」，石滋宜指出，如果跳票危機提早幾個月爆發，政府在股市、匯市不能兼「護」的情況下，會像東亞各國那樣進退維谷。