Selected transition and Mediterranean countries: An institutional primer on EMU and EU accession

Economics of Transition

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 741-805

  Temprano Arroyo, Heliodoro ^a   Feldman, Robert A ^b  

^a EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

^b INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

EMU; EU; Exchange rates; Transition

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC RELATIONS; EUROPEAN UNION; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; MONETARY UNION; REGIONALIZATION;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 0033378311     PISSN: 09670750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0351.00033     Document Type: Article

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