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Currency Unions
Alesina, Alberto - 2000
What is the optimal number of currencies in the world? Common currencies affect trading costs and, thereby, the amounts of trade, output, and consumption. From the perspective of monetary policy, the adoption of another country's currency trades off the benefits of commitment to price stability...
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Fiscal Federalism and Optimum Currency Areas : Evidence for Europe From the United States
Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 1991
The main goal of this paper is to estimate to what extent the federal government of the United States insures member states against regional income shocks. We find that a one dollar reduction in a region's per capita personal income triggers a decrease in federal taxes of about 34 cents and an...
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Fund Surveillance Over Members of Currency Unions
International Monetary Fund - 2005
Effective Fund surveillance over the members of currency unions entails discussions at the regional level. This requirement derives from the fact that currency union members have devolved responsibility for policy areas that are central to Fund surveillance, notably monetary and exchange rate...
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Aftershocks of Monetary Unification : Hysteresis with a Financial Twist
Bayoumi, Tamim - 2017
Once upon a time, in the 1990s, it was widely agreed that neither Europe nor the United States was an optimum currency area, although moderating this concern was the finding that it was possible to distinguish a regional core and periphery (Bayoumi and Eichengreen, 1993). Revisiting these...
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Optimum currency areas : new analytical and policy developments
Bléjer, Mario I. (ed.) - International Monetary Fund - 1997
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Is Europe an Optimum Currency Area?
Eichengreen, Barry - 1991
An optimum currency area is an economic unit composed of regions affected symmetrically by disturbances and between which labor and other factors of production flow freely. The symmetrical nature of disturbances and the high degree of factor mobility make it optimal to forsake nominal exchange...
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Participation in a Currency Union
Casella, Alessandra - 1990
When countries of different sizes participate in a cooperative agreement, the potential gain from deviation determines the minimum power that each country requires in the common decision-making. <br><bR>This paper studies the problem in the context of a monetary union - multiple countries sharing a...
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A Tale of Politically-Failing Single-Currency Area
Razin, Assaf - 2012
and recovery patterns for key EU members like Germany and France, within the Eurozone, were similar. However, after the … bubble burst and the crisis began unfolding it became clear that the Eurozone plight differed from America's in one … fundamental respect. There was no exact counterpart of Eurozone GIIPS (Greece, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain) in the United …
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The European Union, the Euro, and Equity Market Integration
Bekaert, Geert - 2010
At a time of historic challenges to the viability of the Eurozone, we assess the contribution of the EU and the Euro to …
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Towards a Common European Monetary Union Risk Free Rate
Mayordomo, Sergio - 2009
A common European bond would yield a common European Monetary Union risk free rate. We present tentative estimates of this common risk free for the European Monetary Union countries from 2004 to 2009 using variables motivated by a theoretical portfolio selection model. First, we analyze the...
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