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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Optimum Currency Area"”.
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Modelling the Economic and Political Factors of Optimum Currency Area Theory for the Adoption of the Single Currency Project in Gulf Cooperation Council
… as well as a political bloc. The theory of optimum currency areas provides the economic foundation for this research. Previous studies focused largely on the eight prerequisites of an optimum currency area. Political events in the Gulf region for the decade up to 2016 have underscored the …
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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
The study aims to establish whether or not the Optimum Currency Area (OCA) theory criteria are endogenous to regime change. To reach this 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 …
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Namibia and the common monetary area : costs, benefits and choices
This study analyses if the Common Monetary Area 1s an optimum currency area for Namibia. It analyses if Namibia should continue its membership of the Common Monetary Area or whether it should consider alternative exchange rate regimes. The analysis was done in terms of the theory of optimum …
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Interest Groups and Exchange Rate Policy Choice in Brazil and Venezuela: Incorporating the Workers
… typically consider structural factors drawn from Optimum Currency Area (OCA) theory as well as macroeconomic indicators such as level of reserves and inflation. Political explanations examine regime type, parliamentary structure, and interest groups. This study further explores the role of …
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Essays on an ASEAN Optimal Currency Area
… As such, they appear to be an unlikely group for currency unification. Older studies suggest that multiple currency union groupings may be possible in the short run that could be unified into a whole at an unspecified time in the future. The issue has been studied for some time and appeared …
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Alternative Exchange Regimes in Oil Exporting Economies: The Case of the Gulf Cooperation Council
… of the GCC economies to move towards a single currency and compares the GCC proposed currency union with the Euro experience.Researchers supporting fixed exchange regime believe that it leads to a better inflation performance according to Ghosh et. al. (1996), Hausmann et. al. (1999) and …
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Four Essays in International Economics
… directly predicted by conventional theories of optimum currency area. The first Chapter proposes a new theory of exchange rate regime choice---different from the policy maker's credibility argument in the "fear of floating" theory---that stresses the roles of both stage of economic development …
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Time-frequency domain analysis of exchange rate market integration in Southern Africa Development Community: A Hilbert-Huang Transform approach
… economic communities to introduce a common currency has persisted for years. As postulated by the Optimum Currency Area hypothesis, coordination of policy indicators among member countries is desirable for stable monetary union. In this regard, the integration of exchange rate markets has …