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, potential impending changes in the Asian monetary and exchange rate regimes in Asia are discussed. Projecting the growth of the … Chinese economy into the future, the weight of the RMB in the financial markets will increase globally as well as in Asia …
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This paper analyzes the consequences of the internationalization of the Chinese renminbi for the global monetary system … moderate the perceived need for insurance, and China would have to loom large in both solutions …
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financial flows and to its institutional initiatives, not just in Asia but around the world. The other is that the renminbi will … play a regional role in Asia equivalent to that of the euro in greater Europe. Proponents of this view argue that China has … in developing regional institutions. Asia, they argue on these grounds, will become the natural habitat for the renminbi …
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-for-tat responses between just the US and China would likely leave the dollar's role essentially unchanged. If both countries coordinate …
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On the twentieth anniversary of its inception, the euro has yet to expand its role as an international currency. We document this fact with a wide range of indicators including its role as an anchor or reference in exchange rate arrangements--which we argue is a portmanteau measure--and as a...
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The modern notion of an international currency involves use in areas of international finance and trade that extend well beyond central banks' coffers. In addition to their important roles as foreign exchange reserves, international currencies are most frequently used to denominate corporate and...
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The European Union will enter Stage Three of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in 1999. The development of euro financial markets and thickness externalities in the use of the euro as a means of payment will be the major factors determining the importance of the euro as an international...
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We propose a simple model of the international monetary system. We study the world supply and demand for reserve assets denominated in different currencies under a variety of scenarios: a Hegemon vs. a multipolar world; abundant vs. scarce reserve assets; a gold exchange standard vs. a floating...
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This paper offers new evidence on the emergence of the dollar as the leading international currency, focusing on its role as currency of denomination in global bond markets. We show that the dollar overtook sterling much earlier than commonly supposed, as early as in 1929. Financial market...
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pound sterling, the transition to the dollar, and the ongoing debate about the potential rise of the Chinese renminbi …
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