Determinants of Dollarization: The Banking Side

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Luis Catão

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Marco E. Terrones

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Date Written: August 2000

Abstract

Dollarization in financial intermediation has exhibited a widely diverse pattern across countries. Empirical work relating it to macroeconomic variables has had only limited success in explaining the phenomenon. This paper presents a two-currency banking model to show that deposit and loan dollarization are determined by a broader set of factors. These include interest rates and exchange rate risk, as well as structural factors related to costly banking, credit market imperfections, and availability of tradable collateral. The direction in which dollarization tends to move with macroeconomic shocks is shown to depend on those factors as well as on initial dollarization levels.

Keywords: Dollarization, Money and Banking, Emerging Markets

JEL Classification: E43, E44, G21

Suggested Citation

Catão, Luis and Terrones, Marco E., Determinants of Dollarization: The Banking Side (August 2000). IMF Working Paper No. 00/146, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=879949

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