Notes
As reported by Dow Jones News Service, 17 February 2011. The advisor was Xia Bin, an academic member of the central bank's monetary committee.
The eight countries are Argentina, Belarus, Hong Kong, Iceland, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea. For details, see Chen and Cheung (Citation2011).
As reported by the Wall Street Journal, 15 July 2011.
A bit immodestly, I can take pride in originating the standard taxonomy in an early book of mine on the pound sterling (Cohen Citation1971).