BIS Review 49/2005  5  A single currency and identical policy rates across the euro area in a certain sense also enhance the possibility to better compare economic performances between Member States and to draw lessons from national experiences in terms of economic structures and policies.
Jens Thomsen: Monetary policy in the shadow of a monetary union1 Speech by Mr Jens Thomsen, Governor of the National Bank of Denmark, at the inauguration of the monetary policy committee at the Bank of Ghana, Accra, 9 September 2002. The references for the speech can be found on the National Bank of Denmark’s website. *  1.