Contrary to what happened in the Seventies, when the parallel currency approach to monetary integration in Europe turned out to be the winning strategy to assist the political decision by Germany and France to revitalize an agonizing integration process, a similar proposal officially made by the...

Increasing trade interdependence among East-Asian countries suggests the urge to design some monetary arrangement to stabilize the macroeconomic framework of an extremely heterogeneously growing area. The paper reviews the literature and analyses several directions of East-Asian integration...

Recently, after the financial and currency crises that hit Asian economies at the end of last millennium and the foundation in Europe of the single currency, a renewed interest towards integration processes in Asia has grown (Whyplosz 2001). In the last four years a vivid scientific debate on...