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This paper explores how non-U.S. central banks behave when firms in their economies engage in currency mismatch, borrowing more heavily in dollars than justified by their operating exposures. We begin by documenting that, in a panel of 53 countries, central bank holdings of dollar reserves are...
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Despite significant strides in financial development over the past decades, financial dollarization, as reflected in … the impact of financial dollarization, differentiating across foreign currency deposits and credit on financial depth … regressions estimated using system GMM show that deposit dollarization has a negative impact on financial deepening on average …
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We analyze the costs and benefits of full dollarization compared to its closest alternative, a currency board …
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Leading up to the global financial crisis, US dollar activity by global banks headquartered outside the United States played a crucial role in transmitting shocks originating in funding markets. Although post-crisis regulation has improved banking systems' resilience, US dollar funding remains a...
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The USD asset share of non-U.S. banks captures the demand for dollars by these investors. An instrumental variable strategy identifies a causal link from the USD asset share to the USD exchange rate. Cross-sectional asset pricing tests show that the USD asset share is a highly significant...
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Declining but still high dollarization rates in the Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA) region affect macroeconomic … dynamics of dollarization in the CCA, the relative roles of macrofinancial policies and financial market development in the de-dollarization … process have not yet been assessed empirically. This paper takes stock of de-dollarization efforts and explores the short …
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We isolate a U.S. dollar currency premium by comparing corporate bonds issued in the dollar and the euro by firms o utside t he U .S. a nd e uro a rea. We make s everal empirical observations that dissect the perceived advantage of borrowing in the dollar. First, while the dollar dominates...
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There are 13 countries in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) with floating exchange rate regimes, de jure. This paper uses the framework pioneered by Frankel and Wei (1994) and extended in Frankel and Wei (2008) to show that most of them have been tracking either the euro or the US...
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We re-appraise the cross-country evidence on the dollarization of financial systems in emerging market economies …. Amidst striking heterogeneity of patterns across regions, we identify a broad global trend towards financial sector de-dollarization … from the early 2000s to the eve of the global financial crisis of 2008-09. Since then, de-dollarization has broadly stalled …
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Based on the experience of the Bank of Albania, the paper proposes a framework toestimate the interest rate lower bound in small, open, and euroized economies. The paperintroduces a stylized monitoring tool to assess the unintended consequences of low policyrates. The paper is the first attempt...
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