Key Features:Examines the issue of Asian monetary and financial integration in a rigorous but accessible manner, particularly as it relates to East AsiaDraws heavily on standard economic tools, but considers also political aspectsIncludes contributions from top scholars from all the relevant...

Since the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998, there has been a deep and abiding desire on the part of Asian policy makers and opinion makers to enhance the region's economic, monetary and financial self-sufficiency - or at least to ring-fence the region against financial instability and give it...

We assemble data on the structure of bank supervision, distinguishing supervision by the central bank from supervision by a nonbank governmental agency and independent from dependent governmental supervisors. Using observations for 140 countries from 1998 through 2010, we find that supervisory...