EMU: Why and How It Might Happen

Journal of Economic Perspectives

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 3-22

  Wyplosz, Charles ^a,b  

^a GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (Switzerland)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0002908606     PISSN: 08953309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/jep.11.4.3     Document Type: Article

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