Arbeitspapier

Currency blocs in the 21st century

Based on a classification of countries and territories according to their regime and anchor currency choice, the study considers the two major currency blocs of the present world. A nested logit regression suggests that long-term structural economic variables determine a given country's currency bloc affiliation. The dollar bloc differs from the euro bloc in that there exists a group of countries that peg temporarily to the US dollar without having close economic affinities with the bloc. The estimated parameters are consistent with an additive random utility model interpretation. A currency bloc equilibrium in the spirit of Alesina and Barro (2002) is derived empirically.

ISBN
978-952-462-755-9
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: BOFIT Discussion Papers ; No. 24/2012

Classification
Wirtschaft
International Economic Order and Integration
Foreign Exchange
International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions
Monetary Systems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System; Payment Systems
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities
Subject
anchor currency choice
nested logit
exchange rate regime classification
additive random utility model
currency bloc equilibrium

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Fischer, Christoph
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Bank of Finland, Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT)
(where)
Helsinki
(when)
2012

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Fischer, Christoph
  • Bank of Finland, Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT)

Time of origin

  • 2012

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