Auray, Stéphane; Eyquem, Aurélien - In: Revue économique 60 (2009) 3, pp. 667-677
This paper shows that financial market incompleteness leads to welfare gains in a monetary union where nominal rigidities and asymmetric shocks do exist. Incomplete financial markets reduce the volatility of the national inflation rates. Welfare gains associated with this decrease are higher...