Dollarization and economic performance: What do we really know?

International Journal of Finance and Economics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 351-363

  Edwards, Sebastian ^a,b   Magendzo, I Igal ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c CENTRAL BANK OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Dollarization; Growth; Inflation; Matching estimators

Indexed keywords

CURRENCY MARKET; ECONOMIC GROWTH; EXCHANGE RATE; INFLATION;

EID: 0142040694     PISSN: 10769307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijfe.217     Document Type: Article

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