European monetary unification has produced a $15 trillion
windfall to its member nations that is rarely discussed or
accounted for in analyses of economic integration. Edmunds and
Marthinsen argue that the reduction in cross-border risks--foreign
exchange uncertainty, inflation differentials, competitive
devaluations, and protectionism in financial services, among
other--is directly responsible for an explosion in the value of
fixed income assets and share prices. They explain how this wealth
accumulation began to accrue even before the Euro was formally
adopted. Could the same thing happen in Latin America or Asia?
Elegantly written and cogently argued, this book explores the
ramifications of currency unification for each region in three
scenarios: partial unification, dollarization, and full
unification. The authors compute the increases in wealth created by
these various levels of currency unification, provide spreadsheet
models that examine the connections between the growth of financial
wealth and real economic growth, and emphasize differentials in
economic wealth among regions with time series maps that resize
nations according to equity markets rather than geography.
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