Is a monetary union feasible for East Asia?

Applied Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1031-1043

  Zhang, Zhaoyong ^a,b   Sato, Kiyotaka ^c   McAleer, Michael ^d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^c YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENCY MARKET; ECONOMIC INTEGRATION; ECONOMIC RELATIONS; MONETARY UNION; VECTOR AUTOREGRESSION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 3242741320     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0003684042000246740     Document Type: Article

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