Theoretical dilemmas of Polish accession to the Eurozone

Abstract

In the paper the verification of the optimum currency areas theory proposed by R. Mundell has been conducted in the context of creation and sustaining the monetary union on the basis of the example of Eurozone. In practice, the optimum currency areas theory does not conform to the European Union reality, because of infinitely small regions (areas) with a similar value of macroeconomic wage productivity. That is why in the background of currently obliging procedures of setting the central exchange rate at the moment of accession it is questionable whether Poland should access the Eurozone. The argument is that a proposed procedure of estimating the central exchange rate is based on macroeconomic wage productivity parity. So the main point resulting from the analysis is the doubt, theoretical, concerning the existence of the Eurozone in a current shape. The monetary union should unify countries and not discriminate particular economic systems because of their low productivity.