A multicountry econometric model and stochastic simulation are used to estimate the stabilization costs of the European Monetary
Union (EMU). A measure of the variability of output and other variables is computed for the current regime and for the EMU
regime. The results show that Germany is hurt the most in terms of increased output variability in moving from the current regime
to the EMU regime.
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