New Issues in Regional Monetary Coordination: Understanding North-South and South-South Arrangements

By Martina Metzger

This book argues for a new conceptual framework that analytically distinguishes between North-South monetary co-ordination, which involves an international key currency, and South-South arrangements between economies all marked by external indebtedness and the resulting macroeconomic instabilities ('original sin'). In this light, the book analyzes different types of monetary co-ordination, ranging from ad hoc exchange rate policy agreements to projects of a common supranational currency, and it examines selected regional cases in Eastern Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403996229
• ISBN13: 9781403996220
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.8"