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A DSGE Model of Trade and Risk-Sharing Effects of Currency Union on Economic Integration of the CFA Zone

In: Regional Integration and Trade in Africa

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  • Thierry Kame Babilla

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Since its creation in 1963, the African Union has sought to foster regional economic integration through monetary unions. But of six major attempts at currency union, only the CFA Zone — using both West African and Central African CFA francs — has been successful (Carrère, 2004; Masson and Pattillo, 2004; Tsangarides et al., 2006, 2008; Tapsoba, 2009a, 2009b). Many have argued that African institutions are not sufficiently developed to deal with the heterogeneous shocks to which African monetary unions have often been subject (Eichengreen, 1992; Krugman, 1993; Fielding and Shields, 2001, 2005a, 2005b; Benigno, 2004; Debrun et al., 2003, 2005; Tsangarides and Qureshi, 2006; Kabundi and Loots, 2007; Karras, 2007; Corsetti et al., 2008; Masson, 2008).

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  • Thierry Kame Babilla, 2015. "A DSGE Model of Trade and Risk-Sharing Effects of Currency Union on Economic Integration of the CFA Zone," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Mthuli Ncube & Issa Faye & Audrey Verdier-Chouchane (ed.), Regional Integration and Trade in Africa, chapter 10, pages 197-217, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-46205-3_11
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137462053_11
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