The rise of regional monetary arrangements poses a challenge for the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s global surveillance efforts. This paper reviews how the IMF has responded to earlier regional initiatives, from the European Payments Union of the 1950s and the Gold Pool of the 1960s to the...

Exchange rate arrangements for emerging East Asia / Duck-Koo Chung and Barry Eichengreen -- Global imbalances and East Asian monetary cooperation / Masaru Yoshitomi -- Toward East Asian monetary and financial cooperation : a Chinese perspective / Yongding Yu -- The linkage between trade...