Currency Unions and Irish External Trade

Philip Richard Lane (1) , Tara Mcindoe (2) , Christine Dwane (2)

1 Economics Department
2 Economics

Ireland has participated in two currency unions - a bilateral union with the United Kingdom that lasted until 1979 and as a founder member of European Monetary Union that began in 1999. This paper investigates whether currency unions have influenced Irish trade patterns.

Mots clés: Social Sciences & Humanities

Philip Richard Lane, Tara Mcindoe, Christine Dwane. Currency Unions and Irish External Trade. Applied Economics, 2008, 42 (19), pp.2393-2397. ⟨10.1080/00036840701858109⟩. ⟨hal-00582238⟩