Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/39481 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
ZEI Working Paper No. B 05-2002
Publisher: 
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI), Bonn
Abstract: 
We use rolling cointegration to measure the convergence of base money, M2, the consumer price index and industrial output between two reference countries, Germany and France, and recent EU members and some transition economy candidates. Counties that recently joined the EU exhibit time-varying cointegration with the reference countries over much of the 1980-2000 sample period. Cointegration for the transition economies was comparable for M2 and prices, but less so for monetary policy and industrial output. This suggests that a peg to the Euro upon accession is feasible for the East European candidates, but the benefits of joining the Euro zone are as yet limited.
Subjects: 
European Union
convergence
currency areas
enlargement
cointegration
policy coordination
JEL: 
F15
F36
F42
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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