The Impact of the Strong Euro on the Real Effective Exchange Rates of the Two Francophone African CFA Zones

The author estimates the degree of misalignment of the CFA franc since the introduction of the euro in 1999. Using a relative purchasing power parity-based methodology, he develops a monthly panel time series dataset for both the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) zone and the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zafar, Ali
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
GDP
M1
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8532