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EMU: Ready or Not?

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Obstfeld, M.

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This essay is based on the 1997-98 Frank D. Graham Memorial Lecture, which I had the honor of presenting at Princeton University on April 9, 1998. Frank Graham was deeply concerned with the interplay among national policy sovereignty, exchange-rate regimes, and price-level stability. Today, the world offers an embarrassingly rich diversity of national and regional arenas in which domestic political realities and the desire for exchange-rate stability have come - or threaten to come - into conflict. Europe, where a new common curency, the euro, is to be launched on January 1, 1999, will not be exempt from this tension in the foreseeable future.

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Paper provided by International Economics Section, Departement of Economics Princeton University, in its series Princeton Essays in International Economics with number 209.

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Date of creation: 1998
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Keywords: EUROPE ; MONETARY AREAS ; ECONOMIC INTEGRATION;

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F33 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions

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