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Title

Currency unions / edited by Alberto Alesina and Robert J. Barro.

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, [2001], ©2001.

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Additional Authors

• Alesina, Alberto.
• Barro, Robert J.

Description

xxi, 86 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 496

Uniform Title

Hoover Institution Press publication ; 496.

Subjects

• Debts, External > Congresses
• International Monetary Fund Congresses
• Currency question > Congresses
• International finance > Congresses
• Monetary policy > International cooperation > Congresses
• Monetary unions > Congresses
• International trade > Congresses
• Financial crises > Congresses

Note

• Based on a conference held at the Hoover Institution in May 2000. The present volume includes non-technical summaries of these papers.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Alberto Alesina and Robert J. Barro -- 1. Ecuador and the International Monetary Fund / Stanley Fischer -- 2. One Country, One Currency? / Alberto Alesina and Robert J. Barro -- 3. Dollarization and Integration / Charles Engel and Andrew K. Rose -- 4. An Estimate of the Effect of Currency Unions on Trade and Growth / Jeffrey A. Frankel and Andrew K. Rose -- 5. Reflections on Dollarization / Guillermo A. Calvo and Carmen M. Reinhart -- 6. Coping with Terms of Trade Shocks: Pegs versus Floats / Christian Broda -- 7. Monetary Independence in Emerging Markets: The Role of the Exchange-Rate Regime / Eduardo Borensztein and Jeromin Zettelmeyer -- 8. Dollarization of Liabilities, Financial Fragility, and Exchange-Rate Policy / Luis Felipe Cespedes, Roberto Chang and Andres Velasco -- 9. Do We Really Need a New Global Monetary Compact? / Maurice Obstfeld and Kenneth Rogoff.

ISBN

0817928421 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2001039204

OCLC

• ocm47136613
• SCSB-4255488

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries