Welfare Effects of Monetary Integration: The Common Monetary Area and Beyond

By Tamon Asonuma, Xavier Debrun, Paul R Masson

May 1, 2012

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Tamon Asonuma, Xavier Debrun, and Paul R Masson. Welfare Effects of Monetary Integration: The Common Monetary Area and Beyond, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2012) accessed December 22, 2024

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Summary

This paper proposes a quantitative assessment of the welfare effects arising from the Common Monetary Area (CMA) and an array of broader grouping among Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries. Model simulations suggest that (i) participating in the CMA benefits all members; (ii) joining the CMA individually is beneficial for all SADC members except Angola, Mauritius and Tanzania; (iii) creating a symmetric CMA-wide monetary union with a regional central bank carries some costs in terms of foregone anti-inflationary credibility; and (iv) SADC-wide symmetric monetary union continues to be beneficial for all except Mauritius, although the gains for existing CMA members are likely to be limited.

Subject: Banking, Currencies, Inflation, Monetary base, Monetary unions

Keywords: CMA agreement, CMA arrangement, CMA country, CMA member, CMA monetary policy, Monetary union, Terms of trade, WP

Publication Details

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33
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Working Paper No. 2012/136
Stock No:

WPIEA2012136
ISBN:

9781475503890
ISSN:

1018-5941

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