Description
Book SynopsisThis book is an up-to-date, authoritative and comprehensive analysis of the key issues and challenges facing regional currency area projects in the context of financial globalization. The authors focus on several central issues that emerged during the experiences of the 1990s and 2000s: exchange rate regimes and optimal currency area theory; exchange rate regimes in emerging countries, international capital markets and regional currency areas; EMU and the euro; exchange rate regimes in Central and Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America; dollarization and the coordination of macroeconomic policies in the presence of regional currency areas.
Regional Currency Areas in Financial Globalization will have wide appeal to scholars and researchers of money and finance, and international economics, as well as economists working in international financial institutions or development banks, and bankers.
Table of ContentsContents: Preface Regional Currency Areas and International Financial Architecture in Financial Globalization: An Introduction Part I: International Financial Markets and Regional Currency Areas 1. Financial Markets Aspects of Regional Currency Areas 2. Currency Regimes and Process of Regional Financial Integration of the Emerging Countries 3. Pensions and Savings in a Monetary Union: An Analysis of Capital Flows 4. Emerging Sovereign Bond Markets: A View from the Extremes Part II: Exchange-rate Regimes and Regional Currency Areas in Emerging Countries 5. Financial Vulnerability and Exchange Rate Regimes in Latin American and Asian Emerging Countries: Towards New Criteria? 6. The Dollar, the European and Exchange Rate Regimes in Latin America 7. Big and Small Currencies: The Regional Connection 8. Regional Integration and the Issue of Choosing an Appropriate Exchange Rate Regime in Latin America 9. Is a Monetary Union in CARICOM Desirable? Part III: Regional Currency Areas and Economic Policy 10. Exchange Rate Regimes in the Route to EMU 11. Can the Free Rider Behaviour of Small Countries Offset the Profligacy Spending Bias of Large Countries in the Euro Zone? 12. Comparing Monetary and Fiscal Policies in Europe and in the United States: A Strategic Analysis 13. Fiscal Policy and War of Attrition: The Case of Latin American Countries 14. Are there Benefits to a Monetary Policy Rule in the EMU?
