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This paper presents new evidence on the dynamics of dollarization and euroization for twenty-five transition countries … dollarization index (CDI) and separate indices of currency substitution (CSI) and asset substitution (ASI). When the CDI is compared … to the traditional dollarization index (DI) that relies solely on foreign currency deposits as a proxy for the extent of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076758
This paper presents new evidence on the dynamics of dollarization and euroization for twenty-five transition countries … dollarization index (CDI) and separate indices of currency substitution (CSI) and asset substitution (ASI). When the CDI is compared … to the traditional dollarization index (DI) that relies solely on foreign currency deposits as a proxy for the extent of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076821
currency substitution, asset substitution, and dollarization, and examine the consequences of network externalities for …
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US dollars, we obtain unique measures of currency substitution, asset substitution, dollarization, and bank credibility …
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Highly volatile exchange rates don't come cheap in economies with large liability dollarization ratios. Therefore …
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simultaneously discarded. Often, dollarization becomes an attractive option for developing countries that have experienced successive … equilibrium, but trigger a recession and increased unemployment. Since this, too, is unacceptable, dollarization turns out to be a …
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This study takes stock of the institutional reform of monetary policy in Latin America since the early 1990s. It argues that strengthening the legal independence of central banks, together with macroeconomic policies, was instrumental in reducing inflation from three-digit annual rates in the...
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or euro-related foreign currency balances. We find substitution between dollarization and euroization to be asymmetric in …
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This paper investigates possible contribution of third-currency effects to exchange rate movements. It reopens the subject of currency substitution and examines whether the third-currency effects change when the third-currency is a complement as opposed to when it is a substitute for currencies...
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This paper investigates effects of third-currency monetary policy shocks on exchange rates. For this purpose we setup a structural VAR model containing the exchange rates of the three major currencies – the U.S. dollar, the euro and the Japanese yen – and short-term interest rates on the...
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