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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819460203321

Autore

Asonuma Tamon

Titolo

Welfare Effects of Monetary Integration : : The Common Monetary Area and Beyond / / Tamon Asonuma, Xavier Debrun, Paul Masson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2012

ISBN

1-4755-9365-1

1-4755-4117-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (34 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

DebrunXavier

MassonPaul

Disciplina

332.1/52

Soggetti

Monetary unions - Africa, Southern

Banks and Banking

Exports and Imports

Inflation

Money and Monetary Policy

Central Banks and Their Policies

Policy Objectives

Policy Designs and Consistency

Policy Coordination

International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions

Financial Aspects of Economic Integration

Monetary Systems

Standards

Regimes

Government and the Monetary System

Payment Systems

Banks

Depository Institutions

Micro Finance Institutions

Mortgages

Price Level

Deflation

Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General

International economics

Monetary economics

Banking

Macroeconomics



Monetary unions

Currencies

Monetary base

Money

Banks and banking

Prices

Money supply

South Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"African Department."

"May 2012."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; I. Introduction; II. Literature Review; III. Theoretical Model; IV. The CMA: History, Institutional Arrangements, and Economic Convergence; A. History and Institutional Arrangements; B. Economic Convergence; Tables; 1. CMA Countries: Selected Indicators, 2008-2010; Figures; 1. CMA Countries and Botswana: Central Bank Rates, Treasury Bill Rates, and Inflation Rates; 2. Small CMA Countries: Reserve Adequacy Ratio; 2. CMA Countries and Botswana: Fiscal Balance and Total Government Debt; V. Welfare Impact of the Common Monetary Area and Variants of It; A. The CMA

3. CMA Countries: Key Model Inputs, 1994-2010B. Hypothetical Expansions of the Common Monetary Area; 4. CMA: Welfare Gains and Losses; 5. SADC Countries: Selected Indicators, 1994-2010; 6. Welfare Gains or Losses from Adding a Single SADC Country to the CMA; VI. Hegemony Versus a Regional Central Bank; A. A Full Common Monetary Union with Current Members; 7. A Greater CMA/SADC: Welfare Gains and Losses; B. A Larger Currency Union with SADC Members; 8. Welfare Effect of a CMA Monetary Union Versus Existing Arrangement; VII. Concluding Remarks; 9. A Larger SADC Currency Union; References

AppendixesI. History of the Common Monetary Area; II. Institutional Framework of the Common Monetary Area; III. Description of the DMP Model

Sommario/riassunto

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.