Main description: Der Autor bietet eine umfassende Darstellung des Themas und hat dafür eine erhebliche Menge Spezialliteratur zu den einzelnen Aspekten ausgewertet. Er befaßt sich sowohl mit der vollkommenen Dollarisierung/Euroisierung von Volkswirtschaften (D/E-Systeme) als auch mit...

In September 1999, the Central Bank of Chile eliminated the floating band for the nominal exchange rate, which operated since 1984, and established a free float. This lasted until the burst of the last Argentinean economic crisis in July 2001. Since then, the Central Bank has smoothed out the...

One of the main reasons to dollarize an emerging market economy is to eliminate high, persistent, and volatile inflation. To be effective, dollarization must generate sufficient credibility, which in turn depends critically on whether its expected probability of reversal is low. Argentina once...

Helleiner finds little support in the U.S. for the concessions that would be necessary to make a North American monetary union palatable in Canada. Comparing the U.S. Federal Reserve and the European Monetary Union, he argues that the influence of Canada within a North American monetary union...

Before the 1997-1998 crisis, the East Asian economies - except for Japan - informally pegged their currencies to the dollar. These soft pegs made them vulnerable to a depreciating yen, thereby aggravating the crisis. To limit future misalignments, the IMF wants East Asian currencies to float...

In this paper we investigate whether it is preferable for Canadian regions to individually adopt the U.S. dollar or to remain with the current currency arrangement. The empirical analysis focuses on the cross-correlations of various business cycle measures of Canadian regions, of Canada, and of...