Dollarization : a primer / Eduardo Levy Yeyati and Federico Sturzenegger -- Dollarization : analytical issues / Roberto Chang and Andrés Velasco -- Using balance sheet data to identify sovereign default and devaluation risk / Pablo Andrés Neumeyer and Juan Pablo Nicolini -- Dollarization and...

The U.S. dollar plays a key role in international trade invoicing along two complementary dimensions. First, most U.S. exports and imports are invoiced in dollars; second, trade flows that do not involve the United States are often invoiced in dollars, a fact that has received relatively little...