Knowledge and Attitude towards European Monetary Union
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چکیده
In this paper, the relationship between objective knowledge of EU and people’s attitudes towards the proposed European Monetary Union (EMU) is analysed. As a data base, survey data from Eurobarometer 39 (1993) has been employed. First it is displayed in a cross-country comparison, how the presented knowledge indicator varies between the original 12 EUmembers. Then the bivariate relationship of the knowledge index with attitudes towards EMU is investigated. In a next step, the robustness of the positive correlation between objective knowledge and attitudes towards EMU is analysed in a multivariate regression model. As a conclusion, it is argued that a higher level of EU knowledge could influence people’s opinion towards further monetary integration positively.
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