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This paper reviews the main policy and analytical issues related to currency substitution in developing countries. The paper discusses, first, whether currency substitution should be encouraged or not; second, how the presence of currency substitution affects the choice of nominal anchors in...
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degree of dollarization empirically. Our results show that Cambodia has been virtually fully dollarized since 1995. Against a …
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progressive dollarization. The paper also analyzes the impact of dollarization on the ability of governments to earn seigniorage …, the dynamics of dollarization in a growing economy, and the central role of expectations—specifically, confidence in the … domestic currency—in determining the extent of dollarization and, potentially, in reversing it. …
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We examine the implications of high degrees of dollarization for the choice of exchange rate regime and the information …
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with different degrees of liability dollarization. The paper answers the question of how efficient it is to use inflation … targeting under high liability dollarization. Our findings suggest that it might be optimal to follow a nonlinear policy rule …
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This paper seeks to draw lessons from the IMF’s experience in handling financial crises around the globe over the past ten years that are relevant to the challenges faced by countries in Latin America, especially in the wake of the recent crisis in Argentina. Experience suggests that...
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This study examines external and domestic influences on Latin America’s economic performance over the past decade and a half. It notes that over the past few years, macroeconomic policies have strengthened and structural reforms have been implemented. Together with a favorable external...
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Dollarization in Russia increased rapidly during the early 1990s, but failed to come down in the second half of the … 1990s in spite of exchange rate stabilization. To explain this "dollarization hysteresis," this paper develops a model in … which network externalities in the demand for currency can generate multiple stable steady states for the dollarization …
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