Pilgrims to the Eurozone: How far, how fast?

Economic Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 311-327

  Kočenda, Evžen ^a,b,c   Kutan, Ali M ^b,d,e,f   Yigit, Taner M ^g  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^d SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^f Emerging Markets Group   (United Kingdom)

^g BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

European Union; Eurozone; Integration; Real and nominal convergence; Transition

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751005266     PISSN: 09393625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecosys.2006.07.003     Document Type: Article

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