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Record Nr.

UNINA9910973828603321

Autore

Kamar Bassem

Titolo

Establishing Conversion Values for New Currency Unions : : Method and Application to the planned Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Currency Union / / Bassem Kamar, Jean-Etienne Carlotti, Russell Krueger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

9786612843945

9781462385027

1462385028

9781452787398

1452787395

9781451873313

145187331X

9781282843943

128284394X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (60 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

CarlottiJean-Etienne

KruegerRussell

Disciplina

336.54

Soggetti

Monetary unions - Persian Gulf States

Currency question - Persian Gulf States

Monetary policy - Persian Gulf States

Foreign exchange rates - Persian Gulf States

Dollar, American

Currencies

Currency

Exchange rates

Exports and Imports

Financial Aspects of Economic Integration

Foreign Exchange

Foreign exchange

Government and the Monetary System

International economics

Monetary economics

Monetary Systems

Monetary unions

Money and Monetary Policy

Money

Payment Systems



Real effective exchange rates

Real exchange rates

Regimes

Standards

Saudi Arabia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"August 2009."

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; A. Introduction; B. Background; The Problem; The European Example; The Gulf Cooperation Council; African Unions; C. Methodology to Set Conversion Values; Step One - Identifying periods of equilibrium; Step Two - Measuring real exchange rate misalignments; Step Three - Adjustments to conversion rates; D. Application to the GCC Countries; Background: Approach of Kamar and Ben Naceur; Step One: The REER equilibrium approach to determine the equilibrium year; Step Two: The bilateral RER misalignment between each GCC currency and the US dollar forecasted until 2013

Step Three: Identifying the new conversion ratesE. Application to Other Currency Unions; F. Conclusions; G. Appendices; 1: Setting the Rates for Conversion into the Euro; 2: The Macro-Indicators Approach Applied to GCC Countries; 3: Overview of CGER Exchange Rate Assessment Methodologies; 4: CGER assessments of selected GCC exchange rates in recent years:; 5: RER Behavior Determinants; 6: Unit Root Tests for the Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER) Model; 7: OLS Estimations of the Short-run Determinants of the REER (Error- Correction Model)

8: Unit Root Tests for the Bilateral Real Exchange Rate (RER) Model9: OLS Estimations of the Short-run Determinants of the RER (Error- Correction Model); H. References

Sommario/riassunto

A key issue in creating a new currency union is setting the rates to convert national currencies into the new union currency. Planned unions in the Gulf region and Africa are seeking methods to set the conversion rates when their new currencies are created. We propose a forward-looking econometric methodology to determine conversion rates by calculating the degree of misalignment in the real exchange rate, and apply it to the GCC currency union. For each GCC currency, we identify the year at which the economy is the closest to its internal and external equilibrium, and then estimate the degree of misalignment in the bilateral real exchange rate vis-à-vis the U.S. dollar based on WEO forecasts until 2013. Application of the methodology to other regions is also considered.