The following NBER conference volume was published:
Ito, Takatoshi and Andrew K. Rose (eds.), International Financial Issues in the Pacific Rim: Global Imbalances, Financial Liberalization, and Exchange Rate Policy.
The following article was published in the above conference volume:
Takatoshi Ito and Yuko Hashimoto, "Price Impacts of Deals and Predictability of the Exchange Rate Movements".
JUST Published:
Takatoshi Ito, "Influence of the Renminbi on Exchange Rate Policies of Other Asian Currencies" in Goldstein, Morris and Nicholas R. Lardy (eds.), Debating China's Exchange Rate Policy, Washington, DC: Peterson Institute for International Economics, April 2008: pp 239-258.
A book collecting papers on the currency basket analyses and proposals has just been published.
TTakatoshi Ito (ed.) A Basket Currency for Asia, Routledge,Pub., London, UK, 2007.
The book has eight chapters, written by various combinations of co-authors among, Takatoshi Ito, Eiji Ogawa, Shin-ichi Fukuda, Yuri N. Sasaki, Junko Shimizu, Kentaro Kawasaki.
The chapters progress from basics to applications of a concept of basket currencies in Asia.
《Contents》
1.Introduction -- TAKATOSHI ITO
2.How did the dollar peg fail in Asia?(reprint from JJIE, December 1998) -- TAKATOSHI ITO, EIJI OGAWA, and YURI NAGATAKI SASAKI
3.Post-crisis exchange rate regimes in East Asia -- SHIN-ICHI FUKUDA
4.On the desirability of a regional basket currency arrangement(reprint from JJIE, 2002) -- EIJI OGAWA and TAKATOSHI ITO
5.Economic interdependence and internaitonal coordination in East Asia -- EIJI OGAWA
6.A case for a coordinated basket for Asian countries -- TAKATOSHI ITO
7.A common currency basket in bond markets in East Asia -- EIJI OGAWA and JUNKO SHIMIZU
8.Possibilities for the introduction of a currency basket in East Asia, from an OCA standpoint -- EIJI OGAWA and KENTARO KAWASAKI
“Monetary Policy with Very Low Inflation in the Pacific Rim”
published on Oct., 2006 from the University of Chicago Press.
(Takatoshi Ito and Andrew K. Rose, editors)
“From Deflation to Revitalization” (in Japanese)
published on Nov., 2005 from Toyo Keizai Shinpo Sha.
“Inflation Targeting and Monetary Policy”(in Japanese)
published on Mar., 2006 from Toyo Keizai Shinpo Sha.
(Takatoshi Ito and Tomoko Hayashi)