Optimum Currency Areas: New Analytical and Policy Developments: New Analytical and Policy Developments

Author/Editor:

Leonardo Leiderman

Publication Date:

June 17, 1997

Summary:

Robert Mundell's pioneering theory of optimum currency areas is revisited, with experts from the IMF, the BIS, the European Investment Bank, academia, European think tanks, and the Bank of Israel looking at its current practical applications, especially in the context of the forthcoming European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Robert Mundell himself offers an update to help in assessing the implications and consequences of EMU.

Series:

Books

Subject:

English

Publication Date:

June 17, 1997

ISBN/ISSN:

9781557756527

Stock No:

OCAEA0000000

Pages:

123

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