Liability Dollarization and the Bank Balance Sheet Channel /

Banks in developing economies often face a mismatch in the currency denomination of their liabilities (foreign currency denominated debt) and assets (domestic currency loans to domestic borrowers). We study the effect of this mismatch on business cycles and monetary policy in a sticky-price, dynamic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cook, David
Other Authors: Choi, Woon
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/141
Online Access:Full text available on IMF