It can't happen, it's a bad idea, it won't last: U.s. economists on the emu and the euro, 1989-2002

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Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 4-52

  Jonung, Lars ^a   Drea, Eoin ^b  

^a EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

^b Tom Phillips and Associates   (Ireland)

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