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Can NAFTA be a Stepping Stone to Monetary Integration in North America?

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  • Dominick Salvatore

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Monetary integration refers to the sharing by a group of nations a common currency and central bank. It is most unlikely that the United States will accept a common currency within NAFTA (even if it were the dollar) and a common central bank. With NAFTA not being an optimum currency area, there is little need and benefit for Canada and Mexico to unilaterally dollarize. This, together with strong political opposition to dollarization, leaves little chance that Canada and Mexico will dollarize or even fix their exchange rate vis-à-vis the dollar in the foreseeable future.

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  • Dominick Salvatore, 2006. "Can NAFTA be a Stepping Stone to Monetary Integration in North America?," Economie Internationale, CEPII research center, issue 107, pages 135-148.
    • Handle: RePEc:cii:cepiei:2006-3tf
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    1. Dominick Salvatore, 2010. "Measuring the Economic Effects of NAFTA on Mexico," CESifo Forum, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 11(04), pages 31-37, December.
    2. Dominick Salvatore, 2010. "Measuring the Economic Effects of NAFTA on Mexico," CESifo Forum, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 11(4), pages 31-37, December.

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    Keywords

    Common currency; dollarization; monetary integration; NAFTA; optimum currency area; monetary block;
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    • F36 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Financial Aspects of Economic Integration

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