The chapter presents an overview of regional financial arrangements in Asia-Pacific. It represents an attempt to "map" various forms of financial governance mechanisms in the region. In line with the analytical model deployed in this volume, the chapter addresses the relationship between global...

This paper documents how economies in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region have integrated financially with the rest of the world since the 1990s. First, the region is increasingly more connected with itself and with other economies. Although economies in the North capture the bulk of the...

A single currency for ASEAN-5 : an empirical study of economic convergence and symmetry / Zhi Lu Xu, Bert D. Ward, Christopher Gan -- Periodically collapsing bubbles in the Asian emerging stock markets / Ako Doffou -- Currency crises in Asia : a multivariate logit approach / Jan P.A.M. Jacobs,...