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Title: The European Monetary Union: An Agnostic Evaluation

Author(s): Daniel Cohen and Charles Wyplosz

Publication Date: April 1989

Keyword(s): European Monetary System, Monetary Integration, Policy Coordination and Seigniorage

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics

Abstract: The debate about a European Monetary Union (EMU) revolves mainly about two issues: the costs of the loss of a national policy instrument, in the form of stabilization and revenues of seigniorage, and the gains from policy coordination. We argue that the costs of giving up national seigniorage are small, but that, on the other hand, policy coordination is not optimally achieved through monetary integration, owing to trade balance externalities. Yet, the EMU should not be compared with an infeasible first-best scheme, but with its alternative, the EM.

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Cohen, D and Wyplosz, C. 1989. 'The European Monetary Union: An Agnostic Evaluation'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=306