Exchange rate arrangements for emerging East Asia / Duck-Koo Chung and Barry Eichengreen -- Global imbalances and East Asian monetary cooperation / Masaru Yoshitomi -- Toward East Asian monetary and financial cooperation : a Chinese perspective / Yongding Yu -- The linkage between trade...

This paper considers the extent to which the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA) meets the criteria for a common currency area. NAFTA is compared with the EC, a regional grouping for which initial plans for a monetary union are already in place. Most of the anticipated benefits from a...

The insulating properties of flexible exchange rates have long been a highly contentious issue in emerging markets - not least in Asian emerging markets. A number of recent theoretical and empirical studies question whether a trade-off exists between rigid exchange rate regimes and insulation...