Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/27011 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Advanced Studies Working Papers No. 432
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
The Bolivian puzzle is high and persistent financial dollarization notwithstanding deep macroeconomic stabilization that achieved stable and low inflation and the regulations encouraging domestic currency deposits. We analyze traditional and new approaches to explain dollarization in Bolivia. We first assess the currency substitution approach and then assess the empirical evidence for the financial dollarization approach. The results show that the macroeconomic variables capture only partially the phenomenon and a better assessment relies on other explanations such as the peso problem and the analysis of specific characteristics of the financial markets in Bolivia.
Subjects: 
Dollarization
Exchange rate regimes
Inflation
Bolivia
JEL: 
E44
E59
G19
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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