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Bryan Caplan, David Henderson, and Arnold Kling

Optimum Currency Areas

A Category Archive (8 entries)
January 23, 2009

The Dollar as Anchor

Monetary Policy
David Henderson
Lots of people lately have been talking about how lousy the dollar is as a store of value. I'll repeat the offer I made in a recent book review in Regulation, in response to an economist's claim that government had... MORE

January 24, 2007

Print More Euros

Optimum Currency Areas
Arnold Kling
Bryan's Euro Bet gets discussed in the Economist blog. There are real issues with the euro; its member states are far from an optimal currency zone, and the problem will only get worse as more members are added (if they... MORE

January 22, 2007

Euro Bet

Macroeconomics
Bryan Caplan
I made a wager this weekend while I was at a Liberty Fund conference in Chicago. Fellow participant Jeremy Rabkin of Cornell made quite a few predictions about the non-future of the EU that struck me as overconfident. When he... MORE

September 16, 2003

Friedman Interview

Economics of Education
Arnold Kling
John Hawkins' interview of Milton Friedman touches on many subjects. Friedman is not terribly worried about Social Security. we're a very strong country, lots of able people, lots of active entrepreneurs, and so the Social Security system will be a... MORE

June 11, 2003

Germany

International Macroeconomics: Exchange Rates, International Debt, etc.
Arnold Kling
The German economy is in bad shape. Brad DeLong points to a paper by Adam S. Posen that assesses Germany's potential to go into a long slump like Japan. For an advanced economy to perpetually stagnate, its political economy must... MORE

May 19, 2003

Economic Policy Diversity

Regulation and Subsidies
Arnold Kling
In an essay on diversity in economic policy, I propose dividing the United States. By splitting into the virtual regions of Miltonia and Hillaria, we could run a "natural experiment" to see how things work. Perhaps after ten or twenty... MORE

May 14, 2003

Should Britain Join the Euro?

Optimum Currency Areas
Arnold Kling
This is a fierce debate. The partisans in favor write, By removing the barriers of separate currencies, the creation of the euro has led to a rapid increase in cross-border trade in the euro-zone. Germany's trade with the EU has... MORE

April 22, 2003

Optimum Currency Areas

Optimum Currency Areas
Arnold Kling
Martin Feldstein explains why Europe is not an optimum currency area, even though the United States is one. First, American employees move within the country when demand is relatively weak in a particular region, facilitated by a common language and... MORE

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