Official Dollarization As a Monetary Regime : Its Effectson El Salvador /

This paper examines El Salvador's transition to official dollarization by comparing aspects of this regime to the fixed exchange rate regime prevailing in the 1990s. Commercial bank interest rates are analyzed under an uncovered interest parity framework, and it is found that dollarization lowe...

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Auteur principal: Swiston, Andrew
Format: Revue
Langue:English
Publié: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2011.
Collection:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2011/129
Accès en ligne:Full text available on IMF