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Optimum Currency Area Indices - How Close is the Czech Republic to the Eurozone?

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  • Lubos Komarek
  • Zdenek Cech
  • Roman Horvath

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In this paper we provide a survey of the optimum currency area theory, estimate the degree of the explanatory power of the optimum currency area criteria, and also calculate the optimum currency area index in the case of the Czech Republic. The results indicate that the traditional optimum currency area criteria to certain extent explain exchange rate variability. Our results may be interpreted as an attempt to assess the benefit-cost ratio of implementing a common currency for a pair of countries. Our results also suggest that from the point of view of the optimum currency area theory the costs of adopting the euro for the Czech Republic may be relatively low, at least in comparison with other EMU member countries. We conclude that if the European Monetary Union is sustainable, the accession of the Czech Republic should not change it.

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  • Lubos Komarek & Zdenek Cech & Roman Horvath, 2003. "Optimum Currency Area Indices - How Close is the Czech Republic to the Eurozone?," Working Papers 2003/10, Czech National Bank.
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    1. Bayoumi, Tamim & Eichengreen, Barry, 1996. "Operationalizing the Theory of Optimum Currency Areas," CEPR Discussion Papers 1484, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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    1. Ignazio Angeloni & Michael Flad & Francesco Paolo Mongelli, 2005. "Economic and monetary integration of the new Member States - helping to chart the route," Occasional Paper Series 36, European Central Bank.
    2. Roman Horváth & Zuzana Kuèerová, 2005. "Real Exchange Rates and Optimum Currency Areas: Evidence from Developed Economies," Czech Journal of Economics and Finance (Finance a uver), Charles University Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, vol. 55(5-6), pages 253-266, May.
    3. Horváth, Roman & Komárek, Luboš, 2003. "OPTIMUM CURRENCY AREA INDICES : EVIDENCE FROM THE 1990s," The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) 665, University of Warwick, Department of Economics.
    4. Jarko Fidrmuc & Eduard Hagara, 2004. "Podobnosť ponukových a dopytových šokov v Európskej Únii a v pristupujúcich krajinách (implikácie pre Českú republiku a Slovensko) [Similarity of supply and demand shocks in the European Union and ," Politická ekonomie, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2004(2), pages 153-164.

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    Keywords

    Convergence; EU/eurozone; exchange rate; optimum currency area theory; transition.;
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    JEL classification:

    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies
    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
    • F42 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - International Policy Coordination and Transmission
    • F33 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions

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