Currency boards, depoliticization and macroeconomic stability: the political economy of institutional complementaritiesFootnote^*

* Earlier versions of this article were presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in Washington, DC, 28–31 August 2014 and at the 22nd International Conference of Europeanists, 8–10 July 2015 and published in Lithuanian in the journal Politologija. The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers of this article and David Steinberg for valuable comments as well as Vaida Gineikytė for her research assistance.

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