Offshore Markets for the Domestic Currency: Monetary and Financial Stability Issues

Dong He and Robert McCauley

No 1002, Working Papers from Hong Kong Monetary Authority

Abstract: We show in this paper that offshore markets intermediate a large chunk of financial transactions in major reserve currencies such as the US dollar. We argue that, for emerging market economies that are interested to see some international use of their currencies, offshore markets can help to increase the recognition and acceptance of the currency, while still allowing the authorities to retain a measure of control on the pace of capital account liberalisation. The development of offshore markets could pose risks to monetary and financial stability in the home economy, which need to be prudently managed. Experience in dealing with the Euromarkets by the Federal Reserve and other authorities of the major reserve currency economies show that policy options are available for managing such risks.

Keywords: offshore markets; currency internationalisation; monetary stability; financial stability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E51 E58 F33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2010-03
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