Toward a Regional ExchangeRate Regime in East Asia
Kawai, Masahiro | June 2007
Abstract
Deepening market-driven economic integration in East Asia makes intraregional exchange rate stability across the region increasingly desirable and necessary. This paper suggests that East Asia’s emerging economies begin with a currency basket system based on the G3 (US, Euro area and Japanese) or G3-plus (including emerging East Asian) currencies as a monetary policy anchor. This arrangement will enable all East Asian currencies to collectively appreciate vis-à-vis the US dollar, while maintaining intraregional rate stability, in the event of continuous surges of capital inflows to East Asia or a rapid unwinding of global payments imbalances. Such a system would contribute as an initial step to an East Asian monetary zone. After sufficient convergence and with stronger political commitment, East Asia may agree on more rigid intraregional exchange rate stabilization schemes through, for example, an Asian Snake or an Asian Exchange Rate Mechanism.
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Kawai, Masahiro. 2007. Toward a Regional ExchangeRate Regime in East Asia. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/3655. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.Keywords
Development
Finance
Development Challenges
Development Issues
Development Problems
Microenterprises Finance
Commercial Finance Companies
Enterprise Financing
Financial Analysis
Banking Finance And Investment
ADB
Project finance
Development plans
Strategic planning
Business Financing
Investment Requirements
Insurance Companies
International Monetary Relations
International Financial Market
Exchange Rate
Insurers
Insurance stocks
Insurance holding companies
Insurance carriers
Insurance agencies
Business subsidies
Investment companies
International banks and banking
Stock exchanges
Grants
Loans
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