The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) was established in 1989. APEC member countries are remarkably different from each other in many respects. The traditional optimum currency area (OCA) theory may not be suitable for application to APEC. This paper stresses business cycles and trade...

This article examines the suitability of the currency union in the Central Franc Zone (CFA) relative to business cycles and trade. Optimum currency area (OCA) criteria have been employed to determine the suitability of currency integration. This paper also develops a procedure for application of...

The pioneering work of Meese and Rogoff (193) and, more recently, the work of Flood and Rose (1995) showed conclisively, that traditional Fundamentals of Exchange rate behavior offer little hope of explaining the international business cycle of the 1980s. In this paper we present a model which...