IMF Working Papers

Money and Credit Under Currency Substitution

By Carlos A. Rodriguez

November 1, 1992

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Summary

This paper examines the effects on the supply of money and credit of a repatriation of foreign assets in an economy subject to currency substitution. In the absence of 100 percent reserve requirements, such a change in the location of deposits, which is not compensated by an increase in money demand, induces a credit boom that works itself out through a transitory current account deficit and real currency appreciation. These results are illustrated with data from the recent experience in Argentina and Peru where local banks have been authorized to capture dollar deposits from residents.

Subject: Balance of payments, Capital inflows, Credit, Currencies, Demand for money, Monetary policy, Money, Reserve requirements

Keywords: Capital inflows, Central bank, Credit, Currencies, Demand for money, Dollar, Dollar account, Dollar cost of living, Dollar deposit, Dollar value, Foreign currency, Global, Reserve requirements, Value of the CPI, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    18

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1992/099

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0991992

  • ISBN:

    9781451852196

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

Notes

Examines the effects on the supply of money and credit of a repatriation of foreign assets in an economy subject to currency substitution. Also published in Staff Papers, Vol. 40, No. 2, June 1993.

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