Why Do Emerging Economies Borrow in Foreign Currency? /

This paper explores the hypothesis that the dollarization of liabilities in emerging market economies is the result of a lack of monetary credibility. I present a model in which firms choose the currency composition of their debts so as to minimize their probability of default. Decreasing monetary c...

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Autor principal: Jeanne, Olivier
Format: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicat: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2003.
Col·lecció:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2003/177
Accés en línia:Full text available on IMF