Currency Unions
(2019) In Lund Papers in Economic History. General Issues- Abstract
- A currency union is when several independent sovereign nations share a common currency. This has been a recurring phenomenon in monetary history. In this article I study the theoretical foundations of such unions, and discuss some important currency unions in history, most notably the case of the US. Finally I contrast the design of the EMU with economic theories and historical experiences of currency unions.
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- author
- Ögren, Anders LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2019
- type
- Working paper/Preprint
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Central banks, Fiscal systems, Monetary theory, Monetary policy, Optimum Currency Areas, B27, E42, F33, N11, N13
- in
- Lund Papers in Economic History. General Issues
- issue
- 2019:204
- pages
- 36 pages
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- cddb10f3-3ccb-4dfc-a04a-e18480d1ac53
- date added to LUP
- 2019-06-11 13:35:08
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- 2019-11-14 14:17:20
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