Regional currency areas in financial globalization - Patrick Artus

This book is an up-to-date, authoritative and comprehensive analysis of the key issues and challenges facing regional currency area projects in the context of financial globalization. The authors focus on several central issues that emerged during the experiences of the 1990s and 2000s: exchange rate regimes and optimal currency area theory; exchange rate regimes in emerging countries, international capital markets and regional currency areas; EMU and the euro; exchange rate regimes in Central and Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America; dollarization and the coordination of macroeconomic policies in the presence of regional currency areas.Regional Currency Areas in Financial Globalization will have wide appeal to scholars and researchers of money and finance, and international economics, as well as economists working in international financial institutions or development banks, and bankers.