Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors

1 Introduction/Yonghyup Oh

2 Global Imbalances, Twin Crises and the FinancialStability Role of Monetary PolicyHyun-Song Shin
1. Introduction
2. Twin Crises in Emerging Countries
3. Securitization and Global Imbalances
4. Financial System Perspective
5. Policies to Deal with Emerging Country Twin Crises
6. Lessons for Monetary Policy

3 Crisis-Era Protectionism and the G20: Prospect and Retrospect/Simon J. Evenett
1. Introduction
2. The G20, commercial policymaking, and protectionism
3. The resort to protectionism since the first G-20 summit in November 2008
4. The G-20's contribution to “fighting protectionism”: A preliminary assessment
5. Possible commercial policy roles for the G-20 in 2010
6. Concluding remarks

4 Proliferation of FTAs and the WTO/Shujiro Urata
1. Introduction
2. Growing Bilateralism and Regionalism in the World and in East Asia
3. FTAs and Global Trade Liberalization under the WTO
4. Economic Impacts of FTAs
5. Multilateralizing FTAs
6. Concluding Remarks

5 Regulatory Reform after the Crisis: Opportunities and Pitfalls/Thorsten Beck
1. Introduction
2. Restricting or harnessing markets―searching for a new approach
3. Failure resolution schemes―the core of regulatory reform
4. Regulatory reform―the global dimension
5. Concluding remarks

6 Global Crisis and Currency Competition in the Asia-Pacific Region/Seung-Gwan Baek and Yonghyup Oh
1. Introduction
2. Why would Asia-Pacific economies want to internationalize their currencies?
3. Determinants of international currency status
4. Policy implications
5. Concluding remarks

7 Epilogue: What policies for the G-20?