Goldfajn, Ilan; Olivares, Gino - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2001)
This paper analyzes the case of Panama, one of the largest countries currently adopting the dollar as its legal tender, and evaluates some of the predictions of the theory on the costs and benefits of full dollarization. The main conclusions drawn from the case of Panama are that on one hand,...