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==Optimum currency area theory== | ==Optimum currency area theory== | ||
Optimum currency area theory adopts the presumption that a currency area confers microeconomic benefits upon its members by eliminating [[exchange rate risk]]s and reducing transactions costs. Its analysis concerns the extent to which those benefits are offset by macroeconomic costs arising from the necessary sacrifice of national control over [[monetary policy]], such as the cost of the additional [[unemployment]] that may be expected to result from that sacrifice when there is an economic [[downturn (economic)|downturn]]. | |||
<ref>Robert Mundell: ''A theory of Optimum Currency Areas'', American Economic Review, 51 (4), 1961</ref> | <ref>Robert Mundell: ''A theory of Optimum Currency Areas'', American Economic Review, 51 (4), 1961</ref> | ||
<ref> Paul de GrAuwe: ''The Political Economy of Monetary Union in Europe'', The World Economy, November 1993</ref> | <ref> Paul de GrAuwe: ''The Political Economy of Monetary Union in Europe'', The World Economy, November 1993</ref> | ||
<ref>[http://www.cepr.org/pubs/Bulletin/dps/dp842.htm ''European Monetary Union, Political conditions'', CEPR, 1993]</ref> | <ref>[http://www.cepr.org/pubs/Bulletin/dps/dp842.htm ''European Monetary Union, Political conditions'', CEPR, 1993]</ref> | ||
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Optimum currency area theory
Optimum currency area theory adopts the presumption that a currency area confers microeconomic benefits upon its members by eliminating exchange rate risks and reducing transactions costs. Its analysis concerns the extent to which those benefits are offset by macroeconomic costs arising from the necessary sacrifice of national control over monetary policy, such as the cost of the additional unemployment that may be expected to result from that sacrifice when there is an economic downturn.
- ↑ Robert Mundell: A theory of Optimum Currency Areas, American Economic Review, 51 (4), 1961
- ↑ Paul de GrAuwe: The Political Economy of Monetary Union in Europe, The World Economy, November 1993
- ↑ European Monetary Union, Political conditions, CEPR, 1993