02012cas a2200265 a 4500 AALejournalIMF006022 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451873313 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Kamar, Bassem. Establishing Conversion Values for New Currency Unions : Method and Application to the planned Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Currency Union / Bassem Kamar, Jean-Etienne Carlotti, Russell Krueger. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009. 1 online resource (58 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 A key issue in creating a new currency union is setting the rates to convert national currencies into the new union currency. Planned unions in the Gulf region and Africa are seeking methods to set the conversion rates when their new currencies are created. We propose a forward-looking econometric methodology to determine conversion rates by calculating the degree of misalignment in the real exchange rate, and apply it to the GCC currency union. For each GCC currency, we identify the year at which the economy is the closest to its internal and external equilibrium, and then estimate the degree of misalignment in the bilateral real exchange rate vis-a-vis the U.S. dollar based on WEO forecasts until 2013. Application of the methodology to other regions is also considered. Mode of access: Internet Carlotti, Jean-Etienne. Krueger, Russell. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2009/184 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2009/184/001.2009.issue-184-en.xml IMF e-Library