• DOI:10.1080/09692290801928756
Corpus ID: 154851520

From a supporter to a challenger? Japan's currency leadership in dollar-dominated East Asia

@article{Katada2008FromAS,
  title={From a supporter to a challenger? Japan's currency leadership in dollar-dominated East Asia},
  author={S. Katada},
  journal={Review of International Political Economy},
  year={2008},
  volume={15},
  pages={399 - 417}
}

• S. Katada
• Published 2008
• Economics
• Review of International Political Economy

ABSTRACT The dollar dominance in East Asia has depended on its regional support. Japan's supportive policy toward the dollar, however, shifted in the late 1990s as the Japanese government began to address the region's heavy dependence on the dollar, which was regarded as one (but an important one) of the causes of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis (AFC), by promoting the use of the yen in the region and regional monetary initiatives. Despite emerging signs of those challenges, Japan's domestic… Expand

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