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Monetary Union and the Transaction Cost Savings of a Single Currency

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Rodriguez Mendizabal, Hugo

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This paper computes the transaction cost savings derived from the European Monetary Union. A continuous-time, stochastic, Baumol-like model is generalized to include several currencies and calibrated to fit European data. The analysis implies an upper bound for the savings derived from reductions in transaction costs of approximately 0.69% of Union GDP. Additionally, the magnitudes of the brokerage fee and the volatility of transactions, whose estimation has traditionally been difficult to address empirically, are approximated for Europe. Copyright 2002 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

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Volume (Year): 10 (2002)
Issue (Month): 2 (May)
Pages: 263-77
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  4. Hugo Rodríguez, 1998. "The Variability of Money Velocity in a Generalized Cash-in-Advance Model," Economics Working Papers 320, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. [Downloadable!]
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