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The Endogeneity of the Optimum Currency Area Criteria (1998)
| Venue: | FISCAL POLICY IN LATIN AMERICA” NBER MACROECONOMICS ANNUAL |
| Citations: | 426 - 18 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Frankel98theendogeneity,
author = {Jeffrey A. Frankel and Andrew K. Rose},
title = {The Endogeneity of the Optimum Currency Area Criteria},
booktitle = {FISCAL POLICY IN LATIN AMERICA” NBER MACROECONOMICS ANNUAL},
year = {1998},
pages = {1009--1025},
publisher = {}
}
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Abstract
A country’s suitability for entry into a currency union depends on a number of economic conditions. These include, inter alia, the intensity of trade with other potential members of the currency union, and the extent to which domestic business cycles are correlated with those of the other countries. But international trade patterns and international business cycle correlations are endogenous. This paper develops and investigates the relationship between the two phenomenon. Using thirty years of data for twenty industrialized countries, we uncover a strong and striking empirical finding: countries with closer trade links tend to have more tightly correlated business cycles. It follows that countries are more likely to satisfy the criteria for entry into a currency
