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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Monetary Union"”.
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Economic and Monetary Union: An Unexplored Case of Federalism
… the overall evolution of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) from its inception to the current attempts (as of April 2014) to tackle the financial crisis that has affected the Eurozone since 2010. The topic is important because no detailed studies are yet available using a federalist …
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End games, time inconsistency and European economic and monetary union
The vision of a monetary union in Europe is as old as the European Community itself, and yet despite the vast amounts of time, effort and political capital spent to build such a system, little progress has to date been made. Most recently, the Maastricht Treaty has set out a strategy and a …
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The West African Monetary Union: the economics of a dependent monetary system
The West African Monetary Union is one of the rare examples of complete monetary integration in the world today. It is a unique kind of monetary union because the reason for its creation is not to facilitate existing trading and financial relations between its members;
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The Potential Impact on Trade of a Monetary Union in Southern Africa
… as a result of a hypothetical SADC currency union and to analyse its importance for policy. It can serve as a basis for the promotion of regional integration as a means of increasing intraregional trade in the region, on the continent and, ultimately, international trade. Regional monetary …
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Birthing the Eco: Towards a West African Law on Economic and Monetary Union
… reasons for the failure to achieve economic and monetary union (EMU) in the Economic Community of West African States. Economists and political scientists have proffered answers to this ‘why’ question from the prisms of their respective disciplines. They argue that the macroeconomic structures …
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The West African Monetary Union and The Ivory Coast: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
… literature is devoted to the topic of monetary unions in general and the European Economic Community in particular, little attention has been given to the political and economic implications of the French Franc Zone. This dissertation offers an analysis of the French Franc Zone in the …
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Firm-level responses to monetary union and exchange rate regime: evidence from Cote D’Ivoire and Ghana
… impact of the exchange rate regime as well as monetary union on businesses in West African countries based on two cases: Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana. Explicitly, the main hypothesis covers Ivorian and Ghanaian firms’ responses to monetary union and exchange rate regime. Two sets of questionnaires …
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The political economy of European Monetary Union after the end of the Bretton Woods financial system
… previously little financial power have chosen monetary integration as a response to globalisation. On the other hand, countries with substantial financial power such as Germany agreed to monetary integration for the sake of a mercantilist economic agenda and broader political goals.
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Optimum currency areas in the sub Sahara region : examining eligibility of the east African community for a monetary union
This study assesses the impact of fiscal policy and structural harmonisation (common market) of the East African Community (EAC) on the flow of goods and services, market responses, the flow of FDIs in the region and the volatility levels of the exchange rates across the region. The gravity model …
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An analysis of the perceived effects of European Economic Monetary Union upon the hotel industry in the north of Portugal.
… through a single currency, Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) held out the promise of welfare gains for the participating countries and their respective industries. Among the potential benefits of monetary union, EMU was expected to enhance business competition through a stability-oriented …
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Are optimum currency area (OCA) theory criteria endogenous to regime change?: the case of the economic and monetary union (EMU) before and after 1999
… aim I used data on eleven of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) countries, the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US), and I investigate two linked issues: the first is related to the OCA preconditions and it addresses the questions: if and to what extent the EMU members had …
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ECONOMIC AND MONETARY INTEGRATION IN THE GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL (GCC): A KUWAITI PERSPECTIVE
… Kuwait is committed to advancing Economic and Monetary Integration with the GCC countries, and put into practice the guidelines which will make the Currency and Economic Union successful. This study will extend the literature on Economic and Monetary Integration in the context of the GCC …
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Ekonominės ir pinigų sąjungos plėtra ir pasekmės Lietuvai /
The Development of the Economic and Monetary Union and the Outcome for Lithuania SUMMARY 70 pages, 11 tables, 16 pictures, 84 literature references. The main objective of this thesis is to perform the analysis of the economic and social changes in Lithuania during the period of the membership in …
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An Assessment of Monetary Integration in the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ): Feasibility and Trade Implication
This thesis provides an assessment of monetary integration in the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ) focusing upon its feasibility and trade implications, in order to inform policy about the group’s deep integration scheme. The first aspect of the original contribution of the thesis focuses on one …
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Introducing flexibility in the admission requirements for the membership of eurozone countries
… discussion related to the European Economic and Monetary Union have focused on whether it will be able to survive the current crisis or whether or not the countries were ready to form a Monetary Union in the first place. There has also been mention of member countries having surpassed the public …
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Fiscal interdependence, fiscal and monetary policy interaction and the optimal design of EMU
The research looks at the design of fiscal and monetary policy in EMU. The characteristics of the "economic constitution" established in the Maastricht treaty are analysed to test their robustness to different hypothesis about fiscal sustainability and fiscal and monetary policy interaction. …
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Trade Integration Among the GCC Countries
… and feasibility of establishing the GCC monetary union by assessing the old and new convergence criteria that whether the GCC states meet these criteria or not. It is evident that GCC member states have shown the capability for a currency and monetary union. With regards to future plans, …
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Killing two ostriches with one stone : will barriers to SADC trade be reduced as a by-product of exchange control liberalisation within the region?.
… plan, which aims at the creation of a Monetary Union by 2018. The first step taken to examine the collateral effect of this on trade involves the construction of a new index, measuring exchange control restrictiveness (ECRI) across SADC countries over the last 10 years, based on the …
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