Mundell's optimal currency area model has been misconstrued, being at base an argument against multiple currencies as Mundell himself stated in that paper and frequently since. This paper shows two things. First use of this model has generated beggar-thy-neighbour advice concerning exchange rate...

This paper studies the international transmission effects of the news about the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) of the US to the Canadian economy. First, using the Vector Error Correction Model (VECM), the impulse responses of Canadian macroeconomic variables to the US news shock are estimated....

"Recent macroeconomic experience has drawn attention to the importance of interdependence among countries through financial markets and institutions, independently of traditional trade linkages. This paper develops a model of the international transmission of shocks due to interdependent...