Dollarization
Dollarization Dollarization occurs when the inhabitants of a country ... to or instead of the domestic currency. Dollarization can occur unofficially, without formal legal approval ... domestic currency and uses only foreign currency. Dollarization can refer not only to the use ... as the national currency. Until 1999, official dollarization received practically no attention because it ...
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Talk:Dollarization
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Francisco Flores Pérez
... the colón, to the U.S. dollar. Dollarization was an extremely controversial measure, both lauded ... standpoint of the country's business establishment, dollarization borught about great benefits, such as reduced ... s public health facilities. Critics of his dollarization efforts accuse him of doing so without ...
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George M. von Furstenberg
... Monetary unions--a superior alternative to full dollarization in the long run," The North American ... 335-360 "A Case Against U.S. Dollarization," Challenge , the Magazine of Economic Affairs, July ...
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Argentine Currency Board
... and controlled devaluation of the peso), and dollarization (using US dollars as the country's ... 209-228. Hanke, Steve H. (2002) On Dollarization and Currency Boards: Error and Deception, Policy ...
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Gresham's law
... Gresham was speaking of. The experiences of dollarization in countries with weak economies and currencies ... Guidotti, P. E., & Rodriguez, C. A. (1992). Dollarization in Latin America - Gresham law in reverse ...
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Hyperinflation
... has in foreign reserves. Another example is dollarization as Ecuador officially initiated in September 2000 ... the Sucre currency in early January 2000. Dollarization is the use of a foreign currency ...
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History of Ecuador
... the U.S. dollar (a policy called dollarization). This caused massive unrest as the lower ... heavy fire for the continuation of the dollarization policy, its disregard for social problems and ...
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George Selgin
... been applied to the idea of currency dollarization and private competition for note issue in ...
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Ricardo Hausmann
... Harvard University Press, 2004. Hausmann, Ricardo. "The Dollarization Debate: Is It Over?" In East Asia’s ...
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