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of history confirm the stability of the euro as a single currency in the region and it is seen as a great achievement of …
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This paper contrasts the United States (US) and European situations during the crisis and examines how much of the crisis has been imported by Europe from the US. The paper argues that Europe never had a chance to avoid contagion from the US. It also documents the relatively limited reaction of...
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. It finds that political mishandling has increased uncertainty, which has contributed to a tendency for the euro to become …
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The debt crisis in several member states of the euro area has raised doubts on the viability of European Economic and … Monetary Union (EMU) and the future of the euro. While the launch of the euro in 1999 stirred a lot of interest in regional … had the opposite effect, even raising expectations of a breakup of the euro area. Indeed, the crisis has highlighted the …
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This paper analyzes the optimal transition of the exchange rate regime in the People's Republic of China (PRC). How the PRC can successfully reach the desired regime - whether a basket peg or floating regime - from the current dollar-peg regime remains a major question. To answer it, we develop...
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This paper discusses desirable exchange rate regimes and how countries can shift from their current regimes to these regimes over the medium term. We demonstrate the superiority of a basket-peg regime with the basket weight rule over a floating regime with the interest rate rule or the money...
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As all eyes are on the strategy and policy measures of the People's Republic of China (PRC) to push the international use of the yuan, this paper turns to the internationalization of the Japanese yen and compares it with what the PRC is doing. There are some fundamental differences in the...
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the current euro area crisis. The euro may have led to bubbles, but member economies were not free of trouble before the … euro. Many members were losing competitiveness and in need of removing structural rigidities. If anything, the euro was … introduction of the euro and then discuss the governance overhaul taking place in Europe today. This overhaul was something that …
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The global economic crisis refocused attention on the governance of international economic institutions (IEIs). This study uses the analytical framework of club theory to highlight structural obstacles to reform in international macroeconomic management, development finance, trade, and financial...
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- particularly that of systemically important economies (such as the US, the UK and the Euro Area) - as well as its governance …
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