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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814666903321

Autore

Hulej Michal

Titolo

Stylized Facts on Bilateral Trade and Currency Unions : : Implications for Africa / / Michal Hulej, Charalambos Tsangarides, Pierre Ewenczyk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-7302-X

1-4527-1383-9

1-283-51154-1

1-4519-0827-X

9786613823991

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (37 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

TsangaridesCharalambos

EwenczykPierre

Soggetti

Commerce - Econometric models

Monetary unions - Econometric models

Monetary unions - Africa - Econometric models

Econometrics

Exports and Imports

Labor

Money and Monetary Policy

Financial Aspects of Economic Integration

Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining: General

Trade Policy

International Trade Organizations

Econometric Modeling: General

Monetary Systems

Standards

Regimes

Government and the Monetary System

Payment Systems

International economics

Trade unions

Econometrics & economic statistics

Monetary economics

Monetary unions

Labor unions

Plurilateral trade



Gravity models

Currencies

International trade

Econometric models

Money

South Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"January 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. LITERATURE REVIEW""; ""III. METHODOLOGY""; ""IV. RESULTS""; ""V. CONCLUSIONS""; ""References""

Sommario/riassunto

This paper explores and quantifies several aspects of the performance of currency unions using an augmented version of the gravity model and focusing on two samples, the world and Africa. Our empirical findings suggest that, in principle, membership in a currency union should benefit Africa as much as it does the rest of the world. In addition, we find evidence from both samples that the effect of currency unions on trade is large, almost a doubling; currency unions are associated with trade creation, increase price co-movements among members, and make trade more stable; and longer duration of currency union membership brings about more benefits, although with some diminishing returns.