Chinn, Menzie David; Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 2006
dollar and euro over the period 1999-2004. Whether the euro might in the future rival or surpass the dollar as the world …: the euro. This paper econometrically estimates determinants of the shares of major currencies in the reserve holdings of … the world's central banks. Significant factors include: size of the home country, inflation rate (or lagged depreciation …