Financial Dollarization : The Role of Foreign-Owned Banks and Interest Rates

Why in many economies households and firms borrow and make deposits in foreign currency? Expanding on the existing literature, our framework addresses this question allowing for interest rate differentials and access to foreign funds to play a role in explaining this process of asset substitution or...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Basso, Henrique S., Calvo-Gonzalez, Oscar, Jurgilas, Marius
Format: Journal Article
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5181