China's old recipe book for economic success, based on market distorting policies, is hindering the process toward a market-driven economy and the chance of being granted Market Economy Status (MES). The consequences of policy passivity may derail China into the middle income trap and pose...

Some economies in East Asia have built up large amounts of foreign exchange reserves in the past decades. Holding large amounts of reserves helped these economies to stabilize their macro economy and exchange rates under periods of market stress and rapid shifts in relative economic size....

China's old recipe book for economic success, based on market distorting policies, is hindering the process toward a market-driven economy and the chance of being granted Market Economy Status (MES). The consequences of policy passivity may derail China into the middle income trap and pose...

The dollar's steady depreciation has had little impact on the official reserves of central banks. As scholars of the international monetary system debate whether the dollar can continue to play the dominant role in the international monetary system, actual developments in exchange relations...

Theories of international cooperation (TIC) predict that deeper economic integration raises the costs of policy conflicts and promotes coordination. As the US-EU economy makes up 60 per cent of the world GDP, policymakers on the two sides of the Atlantic are expected to assign highest priority...

This summer subprime crisis and the subsequent credit crunch have placed central banks again on the spot. In the USA and Europe, central banks have made significant steps to calm down financial turbulence by engineering liquidity injections, and interest rate shift. In Europe, following a recent...

Theories of international cooperation (TIC) predict that deeper economic integration raises the costs of policy conflicts and promotes coordination. As the US-EU economy makes up 60 per cent of the world GDP, policymakers on the two sides of the Atlantic are expected to assign highest priority...

This summer subprime crisis and the subsequent credit crunch have placed central banks again on the spot. In the USA and Europe, central banks have made significant steps to calm down financial turbulence by engineering liquidity injections, and interest rate shift. In Europe, following a recent...

...this paper...will limit itself to presenting a succinct description of the process of monetary union as is outlined in the Maastricht Treaty, formulating and evaluating two of many stylized explanations for its unexpected approval in 1991, and finally some significant findings relating to...

...this paper...will limit itself to presenting a succinct description of the process of monetary union as is outlined in the Maastricht Treaty, formulating and evaluating two of many stylized explanations for its unexpected approval in 1991, and finally some significant findings relating to...