Financial dollarization
We present a portfolio model of financial intermediation in which currency choice is determined by hedging decisions on both sides of a bank's balance sheet. We show that minimum variance portfolio (MVP) allocations provide a natural benchmark to estimate the scope for dollarization of assets a...
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paper:paper_00221996_v59_n2_p323_Ize2023-06-08T14:47:19Z Financial dollarization Asset substitution Dollarization Financial intermediation banking currency market exchange rate inflation We present a portfolio model of financial intermediation in which currency choice is determined by hedging decisions on both sides of a bank's balance sheet. We show that minimum variance portfolio (MVP) allocations provide a natural benchmark to estimate the scope for dollarization of assets and liabilities (financial dollarization) as a function of macroeconomic uncertainty. Within this benchmark, we find that financial dollarization displays high persistence whenever the expected volatility of the inflation rate remains high in relation to that of the real exchange rate, even after price stabilization has been achieved. The empirical evidence confirms that MVP dollarization approximates financial dollarization closely for a broad sample of countries. © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. 2003 https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00221996_v59_n2_p323_Ize http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00221996_v59_n2_p323_Ize |
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Asset substitution Dollarization Financial intermediation banking currency market exchange rate inflation |
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We present a portfolio model of financial intermediation in which currency choice is determined by hedging decisions on both sides of a bank's balance sheet. We show that minimum variance portfolio (MVP) allocations provide a natural benchmark to estimate the scope for dollarization of assets and liabilities (financial dollarization) as a function of macroeconomic uncertainty. Within this benchmark, we find that financial dollarization displays high persistence whenever the expected volatility of the inflation rate remains high in relation to that of the real exchange rate, even after price stabilization has been achieved. The empirical evidence confirms that MVP dollarization approximates financial dollarization closely for a broad sample of countries. © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. |
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Financial dollarization |
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Financial dollarization |
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Financial dollarization |
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Financial dollarization |
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Financial dollarization |
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financial dollarization |
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https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00221996_v59_n2_p323_Ize http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00221996_v59_n2_p323_Ize |
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