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Dollarization of Financial Intermediation: Causes and Policy Implications

By Eduardo Levy Yeyati, Alain Ize

March 1, 1998

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Eduardo Levy Yeyati, and Alain Ize. Dollarization of Financial Intermediation: Causes and Policy Implications, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1998) accessed September 20, 2024
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Summary

This paper presents a portfolio model of financial intermediation in which currency choice is determined by hedging decisions on both sides of a bank’s balance sheet. Minimum variance portfolio (MVP) allocations are found to provide a natural benchmark to estimate the scope for dollarization of bank deposits and loans as a function of macroeconomic uncertainty. Dollarization hysteresis is shown to occur when the expected volatility of the inflation rate is high in relation to that of the real exchange rate. The evidence shows that MVP dollarization generally approximates actual dollarization closely for a broad sample of countries, and policy implications are explored.

Subject: Currencies, Dollarization, Financial institutions, Foreign exchange, Inflation, Loans, Monetary policy, Money, Prices, Real exchange rates

Keywords: Asset substitution, Country risk, Currencies, Deposit dollarization, Dollarization, Dollarization hysteresis, Dollarization ratio, Dollarization trend, Exchange rate, Financial intermediation, Foreign currency, Inflation, Interest rate, Loan dollarization, Loans, MVP dollarization, Real exchange rates, Underlying dollarization, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    48

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1998/028

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0281998

  • ISBN:

    9781451844634

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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