Stylized Facts on Bilateral Trade and Currency Unions : Implications for Africa /

This paper explores and quantifies several aspects of the performance of currency unions using an augmented version of the gravity model and focusing on two samples, the world and Africa. Our empirical findings suggest that, in principle, membership in a currency union should benefit Africa as much...

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প্রধান লেখক: Hulej, Michal
অন্যান্য লেখক: Ewenczyk, Pierre, Tsangarides, Charalambos
বিন্যাস: পত্রিকা
ভাষা:English
প্রকাশিত: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2006.
মালা:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2006/031
অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন:Full text available on IMF
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