Dollarization, Monetary Policy, and the Pass-Through

Alain Ize and Eric Parrado ()

No 2002/188, IMF Working Papers from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: This paper explores how real dollarization (dollar indexing of wages), financial dollarization (dollar denomination of financial contracts), and monetary policy interact in a general equilibrium, new open-economy macroeconomics model with real shocks. Real dollarization is avoided as long as the home monetary authorities conduct monetary policy optimally (maximize local welfare). Suboptimal monetary policies are more likely to induce real dollarization when the correlation between domestic and external shocks is high, since in this case the (presumably optimal) foreign monetary policy guarantees a better level of protection against macroeconomic uncertainty. While real dollarization contributes to financial dollarization, important asymmetries between the two were found.

Keywords: WP; exchange rate; monetary policy; dollarization; exchange rates; optimal monetary policy; small open economy; real dollarization; dollarization trap; financial dollarization; monetary management; dollarization curve; price level; dollarization dynamics; Currencies; Real exchange rates; Real wages; Global (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34
Date: 2002-11-01
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