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Introduction | ||
I | Costs and Benefits of Monetary Union | 3 |
1 | The Costs of a Common Currency | 5 |
1 | Shifts in Demand (Mundell) | 6 |
2 | Different Preferences of Countries about Inflation and Unemployment | 13 |
3 | Differences in Labour Market Institutions | 18 |
4 | Growth Rates are Different | 25 |
5 | Different Fiscal Systems and the Seigniorage Problem | 26 |
2 | The Theory of Optimum Currency Areas: A Critique | 30 |
1 | How Relevant are the Differences between Countries? | 30 |
2 | Nominal and Real Depreciations of the Currency | 37 |
3 | Devaluation, Time Consistency, and Credibility | 45 |
4 | The Cost of Monetary Union and the Openness of Countries | 55 |
3 | The Benefits of a Common Currency | 61 |
1 | Direct Gains from the Elimination of Transaction Costs | 61 |
2 | Indirect Gains from Eliminating Transaction Costs | 63 |
3 | Welfare Gains from Less Uncertainty | 64 |
4 | Exchange Rate Uncertainty and the Price Mechanism | 68 |
5 | Exchange Rate Uncertainty and Economic Growth | 71 |
6 | Benefits of a Monetary Union and the Openness of Countries | 77 |
4 | Costs and Benefits Compared | 82 |
1 | Costs and Benefits Compared | 82 |
2 | Monetary Union, Price and Wage Rigidities, and Labour Mobility | 85 |
3 | A Case-Study | 86 |
II | Monetary Integration | 93 |
5 | Incomplete Monetary Unions: The European Monetary System | 95 |
2 | The Credibility Problem | 95 |
3 | Credibility Issues in the EMS | 103 |
4 | The Liquidity Problem in Pegged Exchange Rate System | 111 |
5 | Symmetric and Asymmetric Systems Compared | 116 |
6 | The Choice of a Leader in the EMS | 121 |
7 | Disinflation in the EMS during the 1980s | 123 |
6 | The Transition to a Monetary Union | 130 |
2 | The Delors Report: A Three-Stage Approach | 130 |
3 | Gradualism Versus Shock Therapy in Monetary Unification | 131 |
4 | The Incentives of the Low-Inflation Country | 141 |
5 | The Parallel Currency Approach to Monetary Unification | 143 |
7 | A European Central Bank | 152 |
2 | Irrevocably Fixed Exchange Rates or a Common Currency | 152 |
3 | Institutional Implications of an 'Irrevocably Fixed' Exchange Rate System | 155 |
4 | Institutional Implications of a Common Currency | 158 |
5 | The Design of the European Central Bank | 159 |
8 | Fiscal Policies in Monetary Unions | 163 |
2 | Fiscal Policies and the Theory of Optimum Currency Areas | 163 |
3 | Sustainability of Government Budget Deficits | 166 |
4 | The Argument for Rules on Government Budget Deficits | 170 |
5 | Fiscal Discipline in Monetary Unions | 173 |
References | 180 | |
Index | 189 |
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