Working Paper

Monetary Policy as an Optimum Currency Area Criterion

Authors

  • Groll
  • D.
Publication Date

Whether countries benefit from forming a monetary union depends critically on the way monetary policy is conducted. This is mainly because monetary policy determines whether and to what extent a flexible nominal exchange rate fosters or hampers macroeconomic stabilization, even if monetary policy does not target the nominal exchange rate explicitly.

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JEL Classification
F33, F41, E52

Key Words

  • macroeconomic stabilization
  • Monetary union
  • optimum currency area theory
  • trade openness
  • welfare analysis