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Financial Dollarization: Efficient Intra-national Risk Sharing or Prescription for Disaster?

8 December 2022
Publication Type: Workshop Presentation

Credit Dollarization occurs when firms borrow in foreign currency (‘dollars’) and Deposit Dollarization occurs when households save in dollars. This research is placed in the context of two themes: Dollarization as a source of international risk sharing, and dollarization as a source of financial fragility.

This research explores the following questions:

  1. is financial dollarization used as intra-national insurance?
  2. how different are intra-national and inter-national flows?
  3. how do frequency of banking crises, severity of banking crises and large balance sheets impact dollarization?
Series title: Financial Dollarization: Efficient Intra-national Risk Sharing or Prescription for Disaster?
Financial Dollarization: Efficient Intra-national Risk Sh...
Financial Dollarization: Efficient Intra-national Risk Sharing or Prescription for Disaster?
Financial Dollarization: Efficient Intra-national Risk Sharing or Prescription for Disaster?
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