The present paper uses a sample of 66 US Dollar-trading Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS or sometimes-called Newcits) to find that the risk-adjusted performance of some strategies (i.e., Equity Long-biased, FOF, Fixed Income and Sector specific)...

Dollarization has been suggested as a policy that might, among other goals, promote trade between a country adopting the dollar and the United States. Evidence supporting this conjecture could be drawn from a recent series of papers by Rose and co-authors who show that a currency union increases...

Dollarization has been suggested as a policy that might, among other goals, promote trade between a country adopting the dollar and the United States. Evidence supporting this conjecture could be drawn from a recent series of papers by Rose and co-authors who show that a currency union increases...

This paper establishes a causal link between the dollar exchange rate and international trade flows, employing a new instrument for the U.S. Dollar that is based on domestic U.S. housing activity (Ma and Zhang (2019)). In line with the dominant currency paradigm (Gopinath et al. (2020)), import...

This paper makes a comparison between official dollarization and the classic gold standard by studying the effects of both on trade. Under this scheme, I have been able to assess the cases of Ecuador and El Salvador: two contemporary examples of official dollarization. In the case of Ecuador, it...