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

• Autore: Asonuma Tamon
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (34 p.)
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: South Africa
• Altri autori: DebrunXavier MassonPaul
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Welfare Effects of Monetary Integration
• ISBN: 1-4755-9365-1; 1-4755-4117-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779201703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; ; No. 2012/136