The former EU president Jean-Claude Junker has proposed that all countries of the European Union should also adopt the euro as their currency and recent research has shown that countries currently pursuing this goal indeed fulfill the classical Optimal Currency Area (OCA) criterion of positively...

We assess to which degree an international transfer mechanism can enhance consumption risk sharing as well as allocative efficiency and apply our results to the implicit transfers generated by a potential European unemployment benefit scheme (EUBS). Specifically, we first develop a simple model...

We propose a new and time-varying optimum currency area (OCA) index for the euro area in assessing the evolution of the OCA properties of the monetary union from an international business cycle perspective. It is derived from the relative importance of symmetric vs. asymmetric shocks that result...

This research aims to analyze the feasibility of implementing single currency policy in ASEAN+3 countries such as Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Brunei Darussalam, Vietnam, China, South Korea, and Japan based on annual data from 1993 to 2017. In...