Regional Integration in West Africa: Is There a Role for a Single Currency?

ISBN-13: 9780815738534 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 201 str.

Eswar Prasad; Vera Songwe

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction and Overview
• 2. Basic Analytical Considerations
• 3. Integration through Trade
• 4. Macroeconomic and Structural Convergence
• 5. Exchange Rate and Monetary Policy Regimes
• 6. Illustrative Monetary Policy Rules
• 7. Institutional Framework, Policy Coordination
• 8. The Path Forward
• Appendixes:
• A. Comparing and Contrasting Asia's and Europe's Approaches to Economic Integration
• B. Macroeconomic Convergence Criteria for Existing Monetary/Currency Unions
• C. General Equilibrium Analysis of Alternative Exchange Rate and Monetary Policy Regimes
• D. Details on Construction of Data for Analytical Exercises
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index