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Financial Dollarization in Emerging Markets: Efficient Risk Sharing or Prescription for Disaster?

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  • Lawrence Christiano
  • Husnu Dalgic
  • Armen Nurbekyan

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We present data that suggests financial dollarization is primarily a device for reallocating business cycle income risk between different people within emerging market economies, rather than across different countries. Although we identify sources of fragility in some aspects of dollarization, the common view that financial dollarization is a source of fragility is over-stated. We develop a simple model which formalizes the insurance view, which is consistent with the key crosscountry facts on interest rate differentials, deposit dollarization and exchange rate depreciations in recessions.

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  • Lawrence Christiano & Husnu Dalgic & Armen Nurbekyan, 2021. "Financial Dollarization in Emerging Markets: Efficient Risk Sharing or Prescription for Disaster?," CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series crctr224_2021_306, University of Bonn and University of Mannheim, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:bon:boncrc:crctr224_2021_306
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    1. Camila Casas & Sergii Meleshchuk & Yannick Timmer, 2020. "The Dominant Currency Financing Channel of External Adjustment," Borradores de Economia 1111, Banco de la Republica de Colombia.
    2. Chen, Hongyi & Siklos, Pierre L., 2023. "Currency substitution in a world of looming retail CBDCs: Suggestive currency substitution-based evidence," Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).
    3. Eduardo A. Corso & Máximo Sangiácomo, 2023. "Financial de-dollarization in Argentina. When the wind always blows from the East," Working Papers 256, Red Nacional de Investigadores en Economía (RedNIE).
    4. Benigno, Pierpaolo & Schilling, Linda M. & Uhlig, Harald, 2022. "Cryptocurrencies, currency competition, and the impossible trinity," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 136(C).
    5. Forbes, Kristin & Friedrich, Christian & Reinhardt, Dennis, 2023. "Stress relief? Funding structures and resilience to the covid shock," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 137(C), pages 47-81.
    6. Santiago Camara & Maximo Sangiacomo, 2022. "Borrowing Constraints in Emerging Markets," Papers 2211.10864, arXiv.org.
    7. Eduardo Corso & Maximo Sangiacomo, 2023. "Financial De-Dollarization in Argentina. When the Wind Always Blows from the East," BCRA Working Paper Series 2023106, Central Bank of Argentina, Economic Research Department.
    8. Eduardo Ariel Corso & Máximo Sangiacomo, 2021. "Desdolarización financiera en Argentina. Cuando el viento siempre sopla del Este," Asociación Argentina de Economía Política: Working Papers 4458, Asociación Argentina de Economía Política.

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