Renminbi Internationalization: Prospects and Implications for Economic Integration in East Asia
This paper argues that renminbi (RMB) internationalization and China's strategic interests in ASEAN will combine to deepen economic integration and pave the way for creating a de facto RMB bloc consisting of the 10 ASEAN countries, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan—a grouping we call ASEAN+New3. Such a currency bloc is likely to weaken the initiatives of the existing ASEAN+3 (China, Japan, and Korea) for regional monetary-financial cooperation because neither Japan nor can Korea join the new currency bloc for economic and political reasons. This paper also argues that RMB internationalization would delay the resolution of the trade imbalance between East Asia and the United States because China would be pressured by the other members of ASEAN+New3 to maintain stability of the RMB vis-à-vis the U.S. dollar. © 2011 The Earth Institute at Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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2011
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Authors: | Park, Yung Chul ; Song, Chi-Young |
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Asian Economic Papers. - MIT Press, ISSN 1535-3516. - Vol. 10.2011, 3, p. 42-72
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MIT Press |
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