Exchange Rate Policy and Interdependence

List of contributors; Preface; 1. Overview Reuven Glick and Michael M. Hutchison; Part I. International Financial Market Integration: 2. Financial links around the Pacific Rim: 1982–92 Menzie D. Chinn and Jeffrey A. Frankel; 3. Relative returns on equities in Pacific Basin countries Charles Engel and John H. Rogers; 4. Exchange rate policy, international capital mobility and monetary policy instruments Michael P. Dooley and Donald J. Mathieson; Part II. Choice of Exchange Rate Regimes: 5. Exchange rate management: a partial review Stephen J. Turnovsky; 6. Exchange rate policy and insulation from external shocks: the cases of Korea and Taiwan, 1970–90 Ramon Moreno; 7. Trade price shocks and insulation: Australia's experience with floating rates John Pitchford; 8. The role of the exchange rate in New Zealand monetary policy Arthur Grimes and Jason Wong; 9. Officially floating, implicitly targeted exchange rates: examples from the Pacific Basin Helen Popper and Julia Lowell; Part III. Intervention and Sterilization Policies: 10. Monetary policy, intervention and exchange rates in Japan Reuven Glick and Michael M. Hutchison; 11. The signaling effect of foreign exchange intervention: the case of Japan Tsutomu Watanabe; 12. Sterilization of the monetary effects of current account surpluses and its consequences: Korea, 1986–90 Sung Y. Kwack; Part IV. Prospects for a Yen Bloc: 13. On the possibility of a yen bloc Takatoshi Ito; 14. Economic fundamentals and a yen currency area for Asian Pacific Rim countries Michael Melvin, Michael Ormiston and Bettina Peiers; Index.