Dollarisation has been extensively debated and is often promoted as a viable monetary and exchange rate policy alternative for emerging economies. While most arguments for and against dollarisation are grounded in theory, there is a recognized scarcity of empirical evidence on the topic. This...

Although the worldwide growth in dollarization of bank deposits has recently slowed, it has already reached very high levels in dozens of countries. Building on earlier findings that allowed the main cross-country variations in the share of dollars to be explained in terms of national policies...

This study is an attempt to understand the behavior of Indian foreign exchange rate and its volatility characteristics by using a daily observation of Indian Rupee against US Dollar over the period of 40 years from 1st April 1973 to 31st March 2012. The foreign exchange rate volatility of Indian...