Chapter 1 Introduction: Characteristics of Asian financial systems in comparative perspective / ByPeter J. Morgan, Ulrich Volz, Naoyuki Yoshino -- Part I Country chapters: Chapter 2 The development and transformation of the financial system in the People's Republic of China / By Damian Tobin,...

This paper investigates the relationship between global liquidity and commodity and food prices applying a global cointegrated vector-autoregressive model. We use different measures of global liquidity and various indices of commodity and food prices for the period 1980-2011. Our results support...

This paper investigates the relationship between global liquidity and commodity and food prices applying a global cointegrated vector-autoregressive model. We use different measures of global liquidity and various indices of commodity and food prices for the period 1980-2011. Our results support...

Both the physical and transition-related impacts of climate change pose substantial macroeconomic risks. Yet, markets still lack credible estimates of how climate change will affect debt sustainability, sovereign creditworthiness, and the public finances of major economies. We present a taxonomy...

In contrast to the popular bipolar view on exchange rate choices, this paper argues that intermediate regimes in general and regional exchange rate systems such as the European Monetary System (EMS) in particular should not be ruled out per se when discussing monetary options for East Asian...

Two central questions arise when discussing financial integration in East Asia: First, what form of integration is to be achieved? And second, who are the players in the integration process and which country(ies) assume(s) the leadership role(s)? This paper asserts that one field in which the...