Towards Monetary and Financial Integration in East Asia - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1848443633 ISBN 13: 9781848443631

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

This indispensable book provides a comprehensive analysis of monetary and financial integration in East Asia. It assesses the steps already taken toward financial integration and brings forward different proposals for future exchange rate arrangements in what has now become the world's most dynamic region.

With contributions from distinguished experts this timely book evaluates the economic and politico-economic arguments and conditions for monetary and financial integration in East Asia. It explores how and to what extent the countries of the region can integrate despite their heterogeneity and their underlying political tensions. Drawing on the European experiences, this book analyzes the economic logic of monetary and financial integration in East Asia and its political feasibility.

This invaluable broad analysis will be of interest to academic researchers, students, policy-makers and professional economists working on matters of international economic cooperation, common currency areas, international open economy macroeconomics, and East Asian integration.

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About the Author

Edited by Koichi Hamada, Tuntex Professor of Economics, Yale University, New Haven, US, Beate Reszat, Economist, Hamburg Ministry of Science and Research, Germany and Ulrich Volz, Senior Lecturer in Economics, SOAS, University of London, UK and Senior Research Fellow, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848443633
• ISBN 13: 9781848443631
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 424
• Editor: Hamada Koichi, Reszat Beate, Volz Ulrich