Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/53687 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
ADBI Working Paper No. 199
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo
Abstract: 
How much can regional monitoring of financial markets and coordination of financial sector policies contribute to preventing and mitigating financial crises? This paper reviews and compares the experiences of Europe and Asia, which have taken different routes and have achieved different levels of regional financial integration. The analysis suggests that the harmonization and coordination of regulation and supervision, with a strong focus on maturity and currency mismatch problems, would constitute an important step toward mitigating the risk of crisis. However, regional monitoring and coordination will remain difficult as long as lender-of-last-resort activities and fiscal support packages are organized on a national level. Against this background, the crisis is a wake-up call for further progress on monetary integration in Asia along the lines of the reformed Chiang Mai Initiative. In Europe, the crisis reveals the need to establish a sustainable regulatory and supervisory structure that properly defines and reflects the responsibilities of regional and national authorities in crisis management, including its fiscal dimension.
JEL: 
F15
F33
F36
G38
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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