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We analyze a recent paper that claims that dollarizing an economy in the presence of a "dollar shortage" will provoke an immediate sharp reduction in real output and welfare. We find many problems with the model that supports this conclusion: confusion about the nature of a dollar shortage and...
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We analyze a recent paper that claims that dollarizing an economy in the presence of a “dollar shortage” will provoke an immediate sharp reduction in real output and welfare. We find many problems with the model that supports this conclusion: confusion about the nature of a dollar shortage...
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This paper investigates effects of official dollarization on the macroeconomic performance of Ecuador using a time … money-price relationship in Ecuador. There are four main findings of this study. First, inflation is lower after official … Ecuador and changed the money-price relationship in Ecuador. -- Official Dollarization ; Ecuador ; Inflation uncertainty …
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This study measures the degree of dollarization in North Korea using results from a survey of 231 North Korean refugees. Specifically, we compare foreign currency use of households as both store-of-value substitutes (i.e., asset substitution) and transaction substitutes (i.e., currency...
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Tiny changes in the American monetary policy can have dramatic effects on the rest of the world because of dollar's double role of national and international currency. This is the Triffin dilemma. The paper shows how it works through three examples: price of commodities, dollarization, and the...
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Cambodia's economic and social achievements over the past ten years have been the most impressive in its history. Nevertheless, Cambodia today is still as dollarized, if not more so, than it was ten years ago. What is this so, and what, if anything, should the Government do? This paper attempts...
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Understanding dollarisation and related debates requires an appreciation of what might be called the "calculus of dollarisation," i.e., a tally of real and perceived costs and benefits of full dollarisation (the adoption of the foreign currency such as the dollar as legal tender in a given...
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