Showing 1 - 10 of 3,025
A country's exchange rate is at the center of economic and political debates on currency wars and trade competitiveness. The real consequences of exchange rate fluctuations depend critically on how firms set prices in international markets. Recent empirical evidence has challenged the dominant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950251
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003347756
apparent paradox between a decade of economic and political improvements and continued dollarization, and drawing policy … host of institutional barriers that need to be overcome to prepare the groundwork for a natural process of de-dollarization. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282131
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001712455
We analyze the differential impact of domestic and foreign monetary policy on the local supply of bank credit in domestic and foreign currencies. We analyze a novel, supervisory dataset from Hungary that records all bank lending to firms including its currency denomination. Accounting for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418213
We analyze the differential impact of domestic and foreign monetary policy on the local supply of bank credit in domestic and foreign currencies. We analyze a novel, supervisory dataset from Hungary that records all bank lending to firms including its currency denomination. Accounting for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010411973
This paper examines the use of U.S. cash dollars as a secondary currency in informal transactions worldwide. While there is considerable interest in and a large theoretical literature on the use of secondary currencies, few empirical results have been established. The primary reason is that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134235
The objective of this paper is to study the causes and consequences of financial dollarization in the Haïtian economy … for the period 1990-2006. Among the potential causes of dollarization, the study investigates the impact of high inflation … trade movement, economic growth, and inflation. The empirical evidence shows that since the adoption of dollarization the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137889
We explore the link between firms' dollar bond borrowing and their FX-hedged funding opportunities, as reflected in a positive corporate basis (the relative cost of local to synthetic currency borrowing). Consistent with previous research, we first document that firms substitute domestic for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840120
We explore the link between firms' dollar bond borrowing and their FX-hedged funding opportunities, as reflected in a positive corporate basis (the relative cost of local to synthetic currency borrowing). Consistent with previous research, we first document that firms substitute domestic for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840281