Monetary Union in West Africa : Who Might Gain, Who Might Lose, and Why? /

We develop a multicountry model in which governments aim at excessive spending in order to serve the narrow interests of the group in power. This puts pressure on the monetary authorities to extract seigniorage, and thus affects the incentives countries would have to participate in a monetary union....

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Egile nagusia: Masson, Paul
Beste egile batzuk: Debrun, Xavier, Pattillo, Catherine
Formatua: Aldizkaria
Hizkuntza:English
Argitaratua: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002.
Saila:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/226
Sarrera elektronikoa:Full text available on IMF