01634cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF001727 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451845747 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Flood, Robert. A Theory of Optimum Currency Areas : Revisited / Robert Flood, Joshua Aizenman. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1992. 1 online resource (24 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Starting with Friedman and Mundell the academic literature has conducted a high level debate concerning the design of cross-country monetary arrangements. That debate has become very complex and the data requirements necessary for appropriate application of the principles developed are far beyond the means of the very nations for which the principles might be valuable. In this paper we return to the simplicity of the early arguments and formalize them in a way that may be helpful for currency area decisions where little is known about economic structure. Mode of access: Internet Aizenman, Joshua. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1992/039 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/1992/039/001.1992.issue-039-en.xml IMF e-Library