ASEAN plus China, Japan and Korea have agreed to expand dramatically the scale of the Chiang Mai Initiative of bilateral swap arrangements and develop a more broadly focused institution. This could be a substantial step on the journey towards an Asian Monetary Fund (‘AMF'). This paper examines...

The central objective of this paper is to empirically evaluate the degree of linkages among East Asian equity and bond markets. The primary contribution of our paper to the empirical literature is that we use a financial gravity model grounded in economic theory. Using data from the...