Financial Dollarization Equilibria: A Framework for Policy Analysis

September 1, 2005

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Alain Ize. Financial Dollarization Equilibria: A Framework for Policy Analysis, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2005) accessed December 21, 2024

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Summary

Rapidly rising dollarization and numerous related financial crises in recent years have heightened the need for policy action. This paper contributes to the policy debate by presenting a common analytic framework that examines the roots of de facto financial dollarization under different economic environments and analyzes its interplay with monetary and prudential policies. In addition to providing a systematic analysis of the existence, stability, and multiplicity of dollarization equilibria, the paper makes a few novel contributions. In particular, it stresses the key role played by monetary policy endogeneity and identifies the underlying determinants of the peso premium that are responsible for inducing a preference for the dollar in financial transactions.

Subject: Credit risk, Currencies, Dollarization, Exchange rates, Market risk

Keywords: Exchange rate, Monetary policy, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

30
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Series:

Working Paper No. 2005/186
Stock No:

WPIEA2005186
ISBN:

9781451862058
ISSN:

1018-5941

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