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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821266303321

Autore

Yelten Sibel

Titolo

Price impacts of non-adoption of the Euro for small European countries / / prepared by E. Sibel Yelten and Harald Anderson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.], : International Monetary Fund, Research Dept., c2006

ISBN

1-4623-0440-0

1-4527-3702-9

1-282-39252-2

9786613820785

1-4527-0336-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (22 p.)

Collana

IMF working paper ; ; WP/06/151

Altri autori (Persone)

AndersonHarald

Soggetti

Monetary policy - Europe

Foreign exchange rates - Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"June 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. OPTIMAL CURRENCY AREA LITERATURE BEFORE 1999""; ""III. ESTIMATION METHOD FOR SJAASTAD MODEL""; ""IV. DATA""; ""V. ESTIMATION RESULTS""; ""VI. EUROPEAN ECONOMIES BEFORE AND AFTER THE INTRODUCTION OF THE EURO, AND THE BAYOUMI- EICHENGREEN MODEL""; ""VII. CONCLUSIONS""; ""References""

Sommario/riassunto

Debates surrounding the adoption of a common currency have focused on its benefits weighed against the long-term costs of losing monetary independence. These debates have assumed that the penalty for not adopting a common currency is the maintenance of the status quo. This paper uses the Sjaastad model to analyze the price-making power of major currencies with regard to the prices of traded goods in small countries that have not adopted the euro and uses the Bayoumi-Eichengreen OCA index methodology to shed further light on changes in Europe. The empirical evidence suggests that small countries that have not adopted the euro have increasingly seen a change in the determinants of their traded goods prices. This seems to contrast with



the experience of small countries that adopted the euro. The results need to be interpreted carefully, given the short time series.