Comparing Apples and Oranges: The Effect of Multilateral Currency Unions on Trade

Monetary Unions and Hard Pegs: Effects on Trade, Financial Development, and Stability

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Nitsch, Volker ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

CFA franc zone; Currency union effect on trade; Eastern caribbean currency union; Economic integration; Multilateral currency union

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920026881     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199271402.003.0006     Document Type: Chapter

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