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
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978-952-462-755-9
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: BOFIT Discussion Papers ; No. 24/2012
- Classification
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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
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anchor currency choice
nested logit
exchange rate regime classification
additive random utility model
currency bloc equilibrium
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Fischer, Christoph
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Bank of Finland, Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT)
- (where)
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Helsinki
- (when)
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2012
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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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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