Monetary History, Exchange Rates and Financial Markets is an impressive collection of original papers in honour of Charles Goodhart's outstanding contribution to monetary economics and policy. Charles Goodhart has written extensively on many of these topics and has become synonymous with his...

[eng] Demutualization is a response of stock exchanges to face increasing competition from globalization and innovation. In theory, with greater competition and incentive to raise efficiency and innovate, demutualized exchanges should be more market focused and produce important innovations. So...

The Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997–1998 have a common trait, that is any shock to the financial system or market system can cause the system or market to flip from one state to another state.

[fre] Cet article traite d'une part de la transition politique à Hong Kong et de ses implications sur les accords monétaires signés en 1997 avec la Chine, et d'autre part du développement de la finance asiatique, en insistant sur la relation de Hong Kong avec le reste de l'Asie.. L'article...

[fre] La démutualisation est une réponse des Bourses à la mondialisation et l’innovation. Sous l’effet d’une plus grande concurrence et d’une incitation à accroître son efficacité et à innover, les Bourses démutualisées devraient être plus attentives aux marchés et plus...

Asian currencies lack regional policy coordination and are therefore subject to volatilities such as the Asian currency crisis of 1997/99. As the Asian currencies have already been observed to be 'flying-in-unison', a stable exchange rate arrangement can be helpful as the next step of evolution...

We construct four market-specific Financial Stress Indices (FSIs) and overall FSIs for the ASEAN-5 economies from 1997 to 2009. Using the FSIs, we establish stylized features of financial stress and characterize the connectivity of financial markets. The results show that stress was most severe...

Keynote Address by Andrew Sheng at the Joint Conference organized by the Institute of Global Economics and the International Monetary Fund