The Effects of Dollarization on Macroeconomic StabilityChristopher J. Erceg and Andrew T. Levin
No 17, Computing in Economics and Finance 2001 from Society for Computational Economics Abstract: Recently, several countries have been considered the relative merits of "dollarization", that is, adopting the currency of an anchor country. One of the main potential costs of dollarization is that macroeconomic stability may be reduced by the loss of monetary policy autonomy. In this paper, we formlate a two-country open economy model with optimizing agents and nominal wage and price inertia. Using this model, we consider the extent to which the stabilization costs of dollarization are affected by the relative variability of foreign and domestic productivity and government spending shocks. We also consider the influence of certain key structural characteristics such as the relative size of the tradeable and non-tradeable sectors and the elasticity of foreign demand for domestically- produced tradeable goods. In light of these results, we evaluate the stabilization costs associated with dollarization for each of the 14 developing country blocks of the FRB/Global macroeconometric model. Keywords: monetary policy; currency unions; exchange rate regimes (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sce:scecf1:17 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Computing in Economics and Finance 2001 from Society for Computational Economics |
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