TY - BOOK ID - 135596601 TI - Exchange rate, monetary and financial issues and policies in Asia AU - Rajan, Ramkishen S. AU - Thangavelu, Shandre AU - Parinduri, Rasyad A. PY - 2009 SN - 1282440934 9786612440939 9812834583 PB - Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, DB - UniCat KW - Monetary policy KW - Foreign exchange rates KW - Finance UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135596601 AB - A decade has passed since the Asian crisis of 1997-1998 which decimated many of the regional economies. While the crisis itself led to severe economic and political consequences, its primary cause was an inappropriate mix of policies, as regional economies attempted to simultaneously maintain fairly rigid exchange rates (soft US dollar pegs) and monetary policy autonomy in the presence of large-scale capital outflows. The chapters in this volume focus on selected exchange rate, monetary and financial issues and policies that are of contemporary relevance and importance to Asia, including choic ER -