Hong Kong's link to the US dollar
Subtitle: origins and evolution
By: John Greenwood.
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press; Eurospan [distributor]
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Hong Kong; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9789622098909
Subjects: Currency question -- China -- Hong Kong; Monetary policy -- China -- Hong Kong; Hong Kong (China) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century; Hong Kong (China) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Charles Goodhart; title: Currency on the skids; title: Time to blow the whistle; title: Monetary downturn compounds trade woes; title: Hong Kong's financial crisis - history, analysis prescription; title: How to rescue the Hong Kong dollar - three practical proposals; title: The stabilisation of the Hong Kong dollar; title: The operation of the new exchange rate mechanism; title: Why the HK$/US$ linked rate system should not be changed; title: Adjusting to the link; title: Negative interest rates - a comparison of the Hong Kong and Swiss schemes; title: Intervention replaces arbitrage - the July package of monetary measures; title: The impact of the Tiananmen Square incident on Hong Kong's monetary system; title: Epilogue.