IMF Working Papers

Monetary and Exchange Rate Arrangements for Nafta

By Barry J. Eichengreen, Tamim Bayoumi

March 1, 1993

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Barry J. Eichengreen, and Tamim Bayoumi. Monetary and Exchange Rate Arrangements for Nafta, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1993) accessed September 19, 2024
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Summary

This paper considers the extent to which the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA) meets the criteria for a common currency area. NAFTA is compared with the EC, a regional grouping for which initial plans for a monetary union are already in place. Most of the anticipated benefits from a monetary union in the EC apply with equal force to NAFTA. However, because the underlying disturbances are more diverse across members of NAFTA, the costs of abandoning the exchange rate instrument are likely to be higher. This is particularly true when NAFTA is compared to the EC’s continental core.

Subject: Conventional peg, Economic integration, Economic theory, Exchange rates, Foreign exchange, Monetary unions, Supply shocks

Keywords: Aggregate supply supply curve, Conventional peg, Demand shock, EC member country, Europe, Exchange rate uncertainty, Exchange rates, Monetary unions, North America, Single currency, Southern Europe, Supply and demand disturbance, Supply curve, Supply disturbance, Supply shocks, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    54

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1993/020

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0201993

  • ISBN:

    9781451843804

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

Notes

Studies the extent to which the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA) meets the criteria for a common currency area, compared with the EC.