L’euroïsation unilatérale, de jure ou de facto, n’est pas exempte de risques potentiels pour la stabilité financière des pays concernés. Elle ne saurait remplacer l’adhésion à la zone euro qui exige le respect des critères d’entrée dans l’Union monétaire.

Pegged exchange rates are often pointed out as more prone to risk of overvaluation, because their real exchange rates have a tendency to appreciate. We check this assumption empirically over a large sample of emerging and developing countries, by using two databases for de facto classifications...

Jacques van Ypersele de Strihou is a discrete person but well-known in Belgian and international political and economic circles. After an outstanding academic career at the Universities of Namur, Leuven and Louvain and then at Yale in the United States where he gained a PhD, he started out his...