Pros and Cons of Currency Board Arrangements in the Lead-Up to EU Accession and Participation in the Euro Zone

Anne Gulde, Juha Kähkönen and Peter Keller

No 2000/001, IMF Policy Discussion Papers from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: Historically, countries with currency board arrangements (CBAs) have experienced lower inflation and higher growth than those with other regimes. The experiences of three candidates for EU membership with CBAs (Estonia, Lithuania, and Bulgaria) have also been generally favorable. Can CBAs serve these transition countries well all the way up to the adoption of the euro? After considering the pros and cons, this paper provides an affirmative answer, but notes that to preserve the viability of their CBAs throughout the process, these countries need to maintain strict policy discipline and be prepared to deal with large capital inflows and asymmetric shocks.

Keywords: PDP; currency board arrangement; currency board; Estonia; EMU membership; Currency boards; European Union; EU accession; EMU; euro; EMU country; EMU participant; EMU accession; exchange rate peg; peg to an anchor currency; inflation performance; transition economy; CBA to EMU; deutsche mark; anchor currency country; CBA country; Exchange rate arrangements; Conventional peg; Inflation; Exchange rates; Baltics; transition country (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26
Date: 2000-02-01
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