Beauty Queens and Wallflowers : Currency Unions in the Middle East and Central Asia /

Against the background of the theory of optimum currency areas, the paper analyzes possible sequences for establishing a currency union (CU) in the Middle East and Central Asia region. Between the corner solutions of independent currencies for all countries in the region and a CU comprising all coun...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elborgh-Woytek, Katrin
Other Authors: Berengaut, Julian
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2006.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2006/226
Online Access:Full text available on IMF