How long did it take the United States to become an optimal currency area?

Monetary Unions: Theory, History, Public Choice

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 76-103

  Rockoff, Hugh ^a  

^a Center for Children and Childhood Studies   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203417911     Document Type: Chapter

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