Currencies, Crises, Fiscal Policy, and Coordination

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Currencies, Crises, Fiscal Policy, and Coordination is written by Paul R. Masson and published by World Scientific. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 981435015X (ISBN 10) and 9789814350150 (ISBN 13).

This volume provides an integrated compilation of selected major articles published by the author in several fields of international finance. These include contributions to the understanding of currency crises and financial contagion, the evolution of exchange rate regimes, the interaction between national fiscal policies and regional monetary unions, and the effect of uncertainty on the gains from international economic policy coordination. The author spent most of his career doing research at established institutions (the Bank of Canada, OECD, and IMF), and these articles emerged from the need to understand the major economic policy issues of the day. In the book's introduction, the author discusses the motivation for these contributions and the unifying themes that emerged, while a concluding chapter provides his personal reflections and suggestions about promising avenues for further research.