The Stability of Monetary Unions: Lessons from the Breakup of Czechoslovakia

Journal of Comparative Economics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 753-781

  Fidrmuc, Jan ^a   Horvath, Julius ^a,b,c   Fidrmuc, Jarko ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Academia Istropolitana Nova   (Slovakia)

^c CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Czechoslovakia; Disintegration; Optimum currency areas

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242275964     PISSN: 01475967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcec.1999.1615     Document Type: Article

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