Trade Effects of Currency Unions : Do Economic Dissimilarities Matter? /

This paper provides a general equilibrium analysis of the trade effects of the formation of a currency union, and of its subsequent enlargement to include an economically dissimilar country. Furthermore, it investigates how economic dissimilarities among countries affect the magnitude of the trade e...

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Yazar: Albertin, Giorgia
Materyal Türü: Dergi
Dil:English
Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008.
Seri Bilgileri:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/249
Online Erişim:Full text available on IMF
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