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The CIS: does the regional hegemon facilitate monetary integration?

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  • Mayes, David G.
  • Korhonen, Vesa

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We consider the likely economic impact and prospects for monetary integration among Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation and Ukraine as part of the Single Economic Space they have agreed to set up. A monetary union among these countries poses three interesting issues for the structure and process of integration: they have already been members of a wider currency union that collapsed, so it is necessary to handle the problems of history; secondly the union would be of very unequal size with the Russian Federation outweighing the others taken together, so we must consider how the national interests would be balanced; lastly natural resources, particularly oil and gas pose problems for dependence and for the determination of the external exchange rate.

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  • Mayes, David G. & Korhonen, Vesa, 2007. "The CIS: does the regional hegemon facilitate monetary integration?," BOFIT Discussion Papers 16/2007, Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT).
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    Keywords

    Monetary union; CIS; economic integration;
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    • F16 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Labor Market Interactions
    • E63 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Comparative or Joint Analysis of Fiscal and Monetary Policy; Stabilization; Treasury Policy
    • E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System

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