Establishing Conversion Values for New Currency Unions

A key issue in creating a new currency union is setting the rates to convert national currencies into the new union currency. Planned unions in the Gulf region and Africa are seeking methods to set the conversion rates when their new currencies are created. We propose a forward-looking econometric methodology to determine conversion rates by calculating the degree of misalignment in the real exchange rate, and apply it to the GCC currency union. For each GCC currency, we identify the year at which the economy is the closest to its internal and external equilibrium, and then estimate the degree

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Year of publication:	2009
Authors:	Kamar, Bassem
Other Persons:	Carlotti, Jean-Etienne (contributor) ; Krueger, Russell C. (contributor)
Publisher:	Washington : International Monetary Fund
Subject:	Währungsunion \| Monetary union \| Theorie \| Theory