The Re-Emerging Privilege of Euro Area Membership /

When the euro was introduced in 1998, one objective was to create an alternative global reserve currency that would grant benefits to euro area countries similar to the U.S. dollar's 'exorbitant privliege': id est, a boost to the perceived quality of euro denominated assets that would...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wiegand, Johannes
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/162
Online Access:Full text available on IMF