01698cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF005424 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451871074 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Albertin, Giorgia. Trade Effects of Currency Unions : Do Economic Dissimilarities Matter? / Giorgia Albertin. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008. 1 online resource (27 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 This paper provides a general equilibrium analysis of the trade effects of the formation of a currency union, and of its subsequent enlargement to include an economically dissimilar country. Furthermore, it investigates how economic dissimilarities among countries affect the magnitude of the trade effects fostered by a common currency. We show that sharing a common currency enhances the volume of bilateral trade among countries. However, the more economically dissimilar is an accession country, compared to the original members of a currency union, the smaller are the gains in trade that would follow the enlargement of a currency union. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/249 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2008/249/001.2008.issue-249-en.xml IMF e-Library