Full Dollarization: The Pros and Cons

December 20, 2000

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Eduardo Borensztein, and Andrew Berg. Full Dollarization: The Pros and Cons, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2000) accessed December 21, 2024

Summary

Analyzes the costs and benefits of full dollarization, or the adoption by one country of another country’s currency. Potential advantages include lower borrowing costs and deeper integration into world markets. But countries lose the ability to devalue, and become dependent on the U.S. Compares with currency board option.

Subject: Banking, Currencies, Currency boards, Dollarization, Exchange rates, Financial crises, Foreign exchange, Monetary policy, Money

Keywords: Currencies, Currency, Currency boards, Currency risk, Devaluation, Dollar, Dollarization, EI, Exchange arrangement, Exchange rates, Foreign currency, Global, Money base, Unit of account

Publication Details

Pages:

22
Volume:

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Series:

Economic Issues No. 2000/004
Stock No:

EIIEA024
ISBN:

9781557759931
ISSN:

1020-5098

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