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Speculative attacks on a monetary union?
Author(s) -
Dooley Michael
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
international journal of finance and economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.505
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1099-1158
pISSN - 1076-9307
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1158(199801)3:1<21::aid-ijfe64>3.0.co;2-9
Subject(s) - economics , speculation , monetary economics , government (linguistics) , exchange rate , vulnerability (computing) , monetary policy , international economics , macroeconomics , computer security , computer science , linguistics , philosophy
This paper develops the idea that full monetary union eliminates the channels through which private speculative attacks have typically ended fixed exchange rate regimes. Profitable speculation against the regime would require government actions following a regime change that are prohibitively costly to the government. The inherent stability of a full monetary union is not a feature of transitional arrangements as currently envisioned for the EMU. A relatively simple but unconventional policy initiative of ‘euroization’ can considerably reduce the vulnerability of transitional arrangements to speculative attack. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.