Working Papers

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Main Findings of the International Workshop
“Regional and International Currency Arrangements”

Eduard Hochreiter and George Tavlas

Editorial

On February 24 to 25, 2006 an international workshop on “Regional and International Currency Arrangements” was held in Vienna. It was jointly organized by George Tavlas (Bank of Greece) and Eduard Hochreiter (Oesterreichische Nationalbank). Academic economists and researchers from central banks and international organizations presented and discussed current research and tried to review and assess the past experience with and the future challenges for international currency arrangements. A number of papers and the contributions by the discussants presented at this workshop are being made available to a broader audience in the Working Paper series of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and simultaneously also in the Working Paper Series of the Bank of Greece. The papers and the discussants comments will be published in International Economics and Economic Policy. This volume contains the forth of these papers. The first ones were issued as OeNB Working Paper No. 120 to 122. In addition to the paper by Josef Christl the Working Paper also contains the contribution of the designated discussant Lars Jonung. Furthermore, the Working Paper also contains the concluding remarks and main findings of the workshop by the two organizers Eduard Hochreiter and George Tavlas.