Monetary and Financial Cooperation in East Asia The State of Affairs After the Global and European Crises

The book includes a number of essays about the prospects for monetary and financial integration in East Asia following the Global Financial Crisis and the Eurozone debt crisis. These events have shaken the region's halting efforts at regional integration. Following a synthetic introduction and a survey of past efforts, the book's originality is to present the views of economists from China, Japan, Thailand, Korea, the US and Europe who assess the situation fromtheir country's angles. It provides a vivid, yet rigorous, view of the state of play in this crucial part of the world, presented by world-renowned scholars.