This paper addresses the challenges to prudential supervision in highly dollarized economies, where central banks and supervisors may be constrained in the use of standard money and financial policy tools. The study’s conclusions are the basis of an ongoing policy dialogue with IMF member...

This study examines the challenges and issues facing policymakers in highly dollarized economies. Focusing on Cambodia, which achieved almost complete dollarization during 1991-95, the authors review recent developments in the literature on dollarization and examine the costs and benefits of...

In this study, I constructed a news based economic policy uncertainty (EPU) index for Pakistan using an unsupervised algorithm and natural language processing (NLP) techniques that does not requires any human classified pre-labelled data. For that purpose, I extracted newspaper articles through...