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There is a wealth of content on the EU on the web, which can be readily located via a search engine. The links below are an indication of what is available for topics relating to Chapter 15.

General Sites

Bob Mundell won the Nobel Memorial Prize partly for his work on currency unions. His website is worth a visit:
www.columbia.edu/~ram15/ie/ietoc.html

Studies applying the OCA criteria to various world regions

Is the United States an Optimum Currency Area?
http://www.chicagofed.org/digital_assets/publications/working_papers/2001/wp2001-22.pdf

Is Asia an Optimum Currency Area?
repositories.cdlib.org/iber/cider/C96-081

Is East Africa an Optimum Currency Area?
http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/hhsgunwpe/0041.htm

Do the MERCOSUR countries form an Optimum Currency Area?
mitglied.lycos.de/mercosur

For more developed studies, see papers by Tamim Bayoumi and Barry Eichengreen on OCA
http://ideas.repec.org/f/pba366.html







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