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How Close is Asia to an Optimal Currency Area in Terms of Business Cycle Co-Movement?

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  • Alicia Garcia-Herrero

    (Chief Economist, Emerging Markets at BBVA and Visiting Professor at CEBIS (E-mail: alicia.garcia-herrero@bbva.com))

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The paper assesses how close Asian countries are to an Optimal Currency Area in terms of business cycle synchronization, with a focus on supply shock asymmetry. Based on a Structural VAR model, the importance of symmetric and asymmetric supply shocks is teasted for all ASEAN+3 countries. In addition, a spatial approach is used to analyze its impact on the whole Asian region and on pairs of Asian countries. The conclusion is that there is evidence of increasing symmetry of supply shocks although the situation differs largely on a country by country basis. Such finding would support a multi-speed process of monetary integration in the region.

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  • Alicia Garcia-Herrero, 2014. "How Close is Asia to an Optimal Currency Area in Terms of Business Cycle Co-Movement?," IMES Discussion Paper Series 14-E-12, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan.
    • Handle: RePEc:ime:imedps:14-e-12
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    Keywords

    Business cycle synchronization; Optimal Currency Area; Asian economic integration; Structural Vector Auto Regression; ASEAN+3;
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    JEL classification:

    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • F40 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - General
    • F44 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - International Business Cycles

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