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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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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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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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The U.S. dollar holds a dominant place in the invoicing of international trade, along two complementary dimensions. First, most U.S. exports and imports invoiced in dollars. Second, trade flows that do not involve the United States are also substantially invoiced in dollars, an aspect that has...
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In recent years, many countries have instituted monetary reforms aimed at improving anti-inflation credibility. Is it a problem, however, that international welfare spillover effects seldom receive much consideration in the design of monetary reforms? Surprisingly, the answer may be no. Under...
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This study grounds the establishment of EMU and the euro in the context of the history of international monetary cooperation and of monetary unions, above all in the U.S., Germany and Italy. The purpose of national monetary unions was to reduce transactions costs of multiple currencies and...
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The paper argues that the reason real world fixed exchange rate regimes usually have finite bands instead of completely fixed exchange rates between realignments is that exchange rate bands, counter to the textbook result, give central banks some monetary independence, even with free...
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This paper investigates the potential impacts of the degree of divergence in open macroeconomic policies in the context of the trilemma hypothesis. Using an index that measures the relative policy divergence among the three trilemma policy choices, namely monetary independence, exchange rate...
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