The dollarization debate / edited by Dominck Salvatore, James W. Dean, Thomas Willett.

This book takes a global approach by discussing one of today's most controversial topics in business; dollarization. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the formation of the Euro, many countries are debating whether or not a common currency is in their best interest.

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Other Authors: Dean, James W., Willett, Thomas D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • Currency areas, exchange rate systems, and international monetary reform / Robert Mundell
  • Unofficial dollarization in Latin America : currency substitution, network externalities, and irreversibility / Edgar L. Feige [and others]
  • The pros and cons of full dollarization / Andrew Berg and Eduardo R. Borensztein
  • Is it time for a common currency for the Americas? / Vittorio Corbo
  • Dollarization : myths and realities / Sebastian Edwards
  • What problems can dollarization solve? / Barry Eichengreen
  • What use is monetary sovereignty? / Kurt Schuler
  • The OCA approach to exchange rate regimes : a perspective on recent developments / Thomas D. Willett
  • Dollarization does not make sense everywhere / John Williamson
  • The problem of dollar encroachment in emerging markets / Ronald I. McKinnon
  • Which countries in the Americas should dollarize? / Dominick Salvatore
  • Pressures for currency consolidation in insurance and finance : are the currencies of financially small countries on the endangered list? / George M. von Furstenberg
  • Monetary union : the political dimension / Benjamin J. Cohen
  • Latin American official dollarization : political economy aspects / Jürgen Schuldt
  • The political economy of dollarization in Mexico / Nancy Neiman Auerback and Aldo Flores-Quiroga
  • Lessons of the Euro for dollarization : analytic and political economy perspectives / Harris Dellas and George S. Tavlas
  • North American currency integration : a Canadian perspective / Thomas J. Courchene and Richard G. Harris
  • The merit of a North American monetary union / Herbert G. Grubel
  • Why Canada needs a flexible exchange rate / John D. Murray
  • Should Latin America's common-law marriage to the U.S. dollar be legalized? Should Canada's? / James W. Dean
  • What exchange rate arrangement works best for Latin America? / Liliana Rojas-Suarez
  • A dollarization/free-banking blueprint for Argentina / Steven H. Hanke
  • Argentina's currency board and the case for macroeconomic policy coordination in Mercosur / José María Fanelli
  • Cuba : "dollarization" and "dedollarization" / Archibald R.M. Ritter and Nicholas P. Rowe.