The flexible exchange rate experiment has been a failure. The best test of any monetary system is the degree to which it avoids unnecessary changes in real exchange rates. These changes drastically reduce the gains from trade and disqualify the arguments ordinarily made for free trade areas and...

East Asia's Monetary Future is an illuminating and valuable work which uniquely focuses on a long-term monetary view of the region. There are multiple and varied future scenarios which can be applied to this region – an enlarged Singapore–Brunei currency area, a greater China monetary bloc...

This paper presents the background and development of the global crisis of 2007–2008 and subsequent developments that are current today. It distinguishes four phases of the crisis: sub-prime mortgage crisis, soaring dollar and the Lehman Brothers fiasco, US and global recession, and, finally,...