Dollarization: Lessons from Europe and the Americas

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Louis-Philippe Rochon, Mario Seccareccia
Psychology Press, 2003 - Business & Economics - 180 pages

The use of the US dollar for domestic monetary transactions outside the USA has gone on for many years now - Panama in 1904 being the earliest example. Since the advent of the Euro, the debate over the benefits of monetary integration has warmed up - particularly for NAFTA countries.
This collection, with contributions from experts such as Philip Arestis, Malcolm Sawyer and Stephanie Bell, examines the various problems and benefits involved in monetary integration and covers the causes of Euro instability, monetary policy in non-optimal currency unions, financial openness and dollarization and the question of dollarization in Canada.
This book addresses one of the burning policy issues in Europe and America: is monetary union worthwhile? The readable yet comprehensive style of this book will make it of interest not only to academics and students involved in European integration, financial liberalization and dollarization, but will also be an important book for policy-makers at intergovernmental level.

 

Contents

is there
15
Illustrations
16
a preliminary assessment
30
the United Kingdom 197999
65
have member states
70
distribution
109
a skeptical view
129
Dollarization as a tight rein on the fiscal stance
143
Tables
164
Why Ecuador was ripe for dollarization but Canada is not
165
Index
176
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