International Risk Sharing and Currency Unions : The CFA Zones /

This paper explores income and consumption smoothing patterns among the member countries of each of the CFA zones-the CEMAC2 and the WAEMU3-during the period 1980-2000. I find that for the CEMAC, only about 15 percent of shocks to GDP are smoothed through the standard channels (that is, capital mark...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Yehoue, Etienne
التنسيق: دورية
اللغة:English
منشور في: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2005.
سلاسل:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2005/095
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Full text available on IMF