A Formal Model of Optimum Currency Areas

April 1, 1994

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Tamim Bayoumi. A Formal Model of Optimum Currency Areas, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1994) accessed December 26, 2024

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Summary

A model of optimum currency areas is presented using a general equilibrium model with regionally differentiated goods. The choice of a currency union depends upon the size of the underlying disturbances, the correlation between these disturbances, the costs of transactions across currencies, factor mobility across regions, and the interrelationships between demand for different goods. It is found that, while a currency union can raise the welfare of the regions within the union, it unambiguously lowers welfare for those outside the union.

Subject: Economic integration, Employment, Exchange rates, Foreign exchange, Labor, Labor demand, Monetary unions

Keywords: Choice of a currency union, Cost t, Currency union, Currency union in a bloc, Employment, Entrepot trade, Exchange rate Ei, Exchange rates, Existing currency union, Labor demand, Larger currency union, Monetary unions, Results from a currency union, Separate currency, Single currency zone, Two-region currency union, Union in a bloc, WP

Publication Details

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22
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Working Paper No. 1994/042
Stock No:

WPIEA0421994
ISBN:

9781451846171
ISSN:

1018-5941

Notes

Also published in Staff Papers, Vol. 41, No. 4, December 1994.

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