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exchange rate flexibility and a lower degree of dollarization, which could help mitigate the negative spillover effects of …
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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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-regression techniques, this paper documents the evolution of households' and firms' dollarization over the past decade. We assess the … macroeconomic determinants of dollarization for households and firms and explore differences between high and low-income countries …. We find that households' and firms' dollarization in loans and deposits are weakly explained by the currency substitution …
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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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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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This paper develops a small open economy model where global and domestic liquidity is intermediated to the corporate sector through two financial processes. Investment banks intermediate cross-border credit through interlinked debt contracts to entrepreneurs and commercial banks intermediate...
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The economic literature has examined deposit dollarization in nominal terms, typically focusing on the ratio of foreign … currency terms, there could be large fluctuations in the dollarization ratio simply due to exchange rate movements. This paper … proposes a new approach to measuring dollarization that removes these exchange rate effects, and demonstrates that beyond the …
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Financial 'euroization'-or 'dollarization' outside of Central and Eastern Europe-is typically analyzed as a singular …
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