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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Главный автор: Masson, Paul
Другие авторы: Debrun, Xavier, Pattillo, Catherine
Формат: Журнал
Язык:English
Опубликовано: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002.
Серии:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/226
Online-ссылка:Full text available on IMF