This paper examines the question of how to design an optimal and sustainable exchange rate regime in a world economy of two interdependent countries. It develops a Barro-Gordon type two-country model and compares noncooperative equilibria under different assumptions of monetary policy...

Deepening market-driven economic integration in East Asia makes intraregional exchange rate stability across the region increasingly desirable and necessary. This paper suggests that East Asia’s emerging economies begin with a currency basket system based on the G3 (US, Euro area and Japanese)...

Deepening market-driven economic integration in East Asia makes intraregional exchange rate stability across the region increasingly desirable and necessary. This paper suggests that East Asia's emerging economies begin with a currency basket system based on the G3 (US, Euro area and Japanese)...