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This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the …
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Purpose-This paper makes an analysis of trade in the WAMZ as well as the WAMZ's trade with other countries in West Africa, Europe and Asia based on the Optimal Currency Area (OCA) theory. This theory first proposed by Mundell (1961) as a basis for evaluating whether or not an area constitutes an...
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The financial crisis in Europe has resulted in a new assessment of monetary and financial integration both in Europe and in Asia. Before the current crisis, regional integration in monetary and fiscal affairs including mechanisms to stabilize exchange rates enjoyed a lot of academic and...
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Purpose - This paper makes an analysis of trade in the WAMZ as well as the WAMZ's trade with other countries in West Africa, Europe and Asia based on the Optimal Currency Area (OCA) theory. This theory first proposed by Mundell (1961) as a basis for evaluating whether or not an area constitutes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001455
Austria, Finland and Sweden became members of the EU in 1995. This paper examines how support for the euro and trust in …. Support for the euro in the two euroarea members Austria and Finland has remained high and relatively stable since the … physical introduction of the new currency nearly 20 years ago, while the euro crisis significantly reduced support for the euro …
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We examine whether the introduction of the euro had a significantly positive impact on the synchronization of business … policy shocks in the euro area. Empirical evidence on this relationship is rare so far and su ers from methodical weaknesses … constructed on a year-by-year basis (1993-2011), we uncover a strong and robust empirical finding: the adoption of the euro has …
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Recent research suggests that adopting a common currency increases bilateral trade. In this paper, I explore experiences of currency union entry in the post-war period and find no effect on trade. Previous results derived from a large panel data set (covering more than 200 countries from 1948...
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economic booms in some peripheral Euro-zone countries financed by large capital inflows; the credit and asset price booms and … Latin American audiences. For those Euro-zone countries that built up large Euro-denominated external liabilities, Latin …
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of them have been tracking either the euro or the US dollar in recent years. Eight countries, all of them current or … aspiring EU members, track the euro. Of the five countries keying on the US dollar in various degrees, all but one belong to … the Commonwealth of Independent States. The paper shows that the extent to which each country's currency tracks the euro …
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