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.htmlStudies 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 |