This book is an up-to-date, authoritative and comprehensive analysis of the key issues and challenges facing regional currency area projects in the context of financial globalization. The authors focus on several central issues that emerged during the experiences of the 1990s and 2000s:...

Dynamic Modeling of Monetary and Fiscal Cooperation Among Nations analyzes coordination of monetary and fiscal stabilization policies between countries and currency areas using a dynamic game approach. The first four chapters introduce the reader to the dynamics of fiscal and monetary policy...

Introduction -- The Model: Description of the Model; A Macroeconomic Model for a Monetary Union; Characterization of the Shocks.-The Model for a Small Monetary Union: Shock Multipliers; Graphical Analysis -- The Model for a Large Monetary Union: Shock Multipliers; Graphical Analysis --...