TY - BOOK AU - Jetin,Bruno TI - Asian Monetary Integration: Dollarization, Common Currency, or Simple Monetary Cooperation? PY - 2009///. N1 - 13 N2 - This article presents a survey of the monetary integration debate in East Asia with a special emphasis on the arguments developed by Asian economists themselves. It focuses mainly on the existence of an optimal monetary zone between various sets of East Asian countries. In a first part, we discuss critically this theory and show that there is no consensus on the optimal zone. In a second part we present the debate on the possible common currencies if a monetary integration was decided or even a monetary union created. The possible candidates are the US dollar, the Japanese Yen, the Chinese Yuan, a basket currency, a parallel currency, an Asian Currency Unit among others. In conclusion, we recall that the decision is above all political UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-tiers-monde-2009-3-page-591?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -