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Capital Markets and Exchange Rate Stabilization in East Asia: Diversifying Risk Based on Currency Baskets

In: Towards Monetary and Financial Integration in East Asia

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This indispensable book provides a comprehensive analysis of monetary and financial integration in East Asia. It assesses the steps already taken toward financial integration and brings forward different proposals for future exchange rate arrangements in what has now become the world’s most dynamic region.

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  • Gunther Schnabl, 2009. "Capital Markets and Exchange Rate Stabilization in East Asia: Diversifying Risk Based on Currency Baskets," Chapters, in: Koichi Hamada & Beate Reszat & Ulrich Volz (ed.), Towards Monetary and Financial Integration in East Asia, chapter 10, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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