Optimum Currency Area and Shock Asymmetry: A Dynamic Analysis of the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ)

Douglason G. Omotor () and Aggrey Niringiye
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Douglason G. Omotor: Department of Economics, Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria
Aggrey Niringiye: Faculty of Economics and Management, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Journal for Economic Forecasting, 2011, issue 3, 71-82

Abstract: This study accesses the feasibility of forming an Optimum Currency Area (OCA) in the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ) from the symmetry of economic shocks which affect member economies. It applies a simple bivariate variant of the vector autoregressive (VAR) model. The results relatively suggest the feasibility of the WAMZ forming an OCA. The likelihood of incoming shocks problems seem to exists from the results. It is advisable that future research apply the more informative minimum distance estimation (MDE) technique.

Keywords: optimum currency area; shocks; asymmetry; West African Monetary Zone; vector autoregressive. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F15 F33 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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