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Currency Unions

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This article reviews currency unions, that is, groups of countries that use a common money. There are a large number of such monetary unions in both the industrial and the developing worlds. I review both the theoretical reasons why countries choose to belong to currency unions and the empirical performance of these unions.

I thank Steven Durlauf for helpful comments.

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Rose, A.K. (2018). Currency Unions. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1975

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