Examining the Case for an Asian Reserve Pool

Reza Siregar and Graham Bird

Chapter 9 in Exchange Rates, Currency Crisis and Monetary Cooperation in Asia, 2009, pp 193-214 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract There are at least two important dimensions to the current macroeconomic imbalances plaguing the global economy. First is the rapid stockpiling of reserves by a number of Asian economies since the late 1990s. While Japan and China together account for about half of Asia’s reserve holdings (which stood at well over US$ 2,000 billion), South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, India and Singapore each also hold over US$ 100 billion of reserves (Kim et al. 2005). Second is the issue of the sustainability of the US current account deficit and its resulting implications for the US dollar (Bernanke 2005).

Keywords: International Monetary Fund; Current Account Deficit; International Reserve; Foreign Exchange Reserve; Coverage Index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230234192_9

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