In the reforms of centrally planned economies (CPEs), variants of the double-track system as a transitional measure. While there have been some studies of the system from the demand side, little effort has been spent by economists to analyze its consequences from the supply side. This paper is...

East Asia's Monetary Future is an illuminating and valuable work which uniquely focuses on a long-term monetary view of the region. There are multiple and varied future scenarios which can be applied to this region – an enlarged Singapore–Brunei currency area, a greater China monetary bloc...

This paper puts forward two major sets of institutional and systems arguments against implementing the 'big bang' experiment in the transformation of centrally planned economies: (1) problems arising from the difficulties of establishing criteria for asset valuation in the transition and the...

Since the beginning of 1990s, the credit balance of the banking system in mainland China has experienced a big swing from negative to positive. The balance has continued to expand up to now. It seems that both negative and positive credit balances are so large that the financial resources have...