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of the euro area. With a 1980-2001 sample, no consistent significant trade effects from the 1999 creation of EMU are … found, using dummies for the 1999-2001 period. Treating EMU not as a single event but as a part of a long-term integration …
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of the euro area. With a 1980-2001 sample, no consistent significant trade effects from the 1999 creation of EMU are … found, using dummies for the 1999-2001 period. Treating EMU not as a single event but as a part of a long-term integration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260434
This paper reviews trends in East Asian regionalism in the areas of trade and investment, money and finance, and infrastructure. It presents various measures of trade and financial integration. An important finding of the paper is that increasing trade and financial integration in the region is...
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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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This paper addresses two central questions for Asia and the world: (1) What is the purpose of Asian regional policy coordination going forward? (2) Will Asian regional policy coordination substitute or complement global policy coordination? The paper examines the potential coverage and content...
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A common finding in the international trade literature is that economic integration leads to export diversification. By documenting a positive link between adopting the European common currency and bilateral export concentration, the current work shows that this is not always the case. Using a...
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America. Several indicators of institutional and economic integration for both the EU and Latin America are presented. We find … than the EU at the beginning of its regional integration process. A cluster analysis illustrates that the link between … institutional and economic integration has worked both ways throughout the whole EU experience. The more institutional integration …
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. In order to implement a common monetary and economic policy for the European Union (EU), the EEMU was created as a …
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On February 24-25, 2006 an international workshop on “Regional and International Currency Arrangements” was held in Vienna. It was co-sponsored by the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and the Bank of Greece, and jointly organized by Eduard Hochreiter and George Tavlas. Academic economists 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 an...
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