Economic Stability and Choice of Exchange Rate Regimes
Kaji, Sahoko | February 2013
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to emphasize the importance of Europe’s structural problems and governance as the cause of the current euro area crisis. The euro may have led to bubbles, but member economies were not free of trouble before the euro. Many members were losing competitiveness and in need of removing structural rigidities. If anything, the euro was expected to encourage structural reform, by taking away the easy choice of monetary and fiscal expansion. We first discuss the relationship between the single currency and economic stability in Europe. We confirm the asymmetries that remained after the introduction of the euro and then discuss the governance overhaul taking place in Europe today. This overhaul was something that should have been done before introducing the euro, and its advancement may be the silver lining of this crisis. Finally, we touch upon the implications for Asia and Japan, from the point of view of the choice of exchange rate regime as a method to advance necessary reforms.
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Kaji, Sahoko. 2013. Economic Stability and Choice of Exchange Rate Regimes. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/3942. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.Keywords
Free Trade
Trade
Trade Agreements
Regional Economic Integration
Intraregional Trade
Exports
Economic integration
Exports
Economic integration
Distribution
Economic integration
Development Bank
Trade policy
Trade policy
Euro
Inflation
Business
Finance
Free trade
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