The U.S. real effective exchange rate is at its highest level since 1985. In that year, the U.S. and its trading partners coordinated a depreciation of the dollar and the U.S. agreed to reduce its budget deficit. This paper reports that a dollar depreciation today would still improve U.S. trade...

Intro -- DOLLAR DEPRECIATION: ECONOMIC EFFECTS AND POLICY RESPONSE -- DOLLAR DEPRECIATION: ECONOMIC EFFECTS AND POLICY RESPONSE -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The Depreciating Dollar: Economic Effects and Policy Response* -- Summary --...

The debate regarding the usage of domestic currency versus dollarizing an economy is still robust in many developing countries. Dollarizing an economy commonly entails dollarizing bank deposits and loans, transacting in dollars and tagging prices of goods and services in dollar. In Tanzania,...