A Dollarization/Free-Banking Blueprint for Argentina

The Dollarization Debate

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Hanke, Steve H ^a,b,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CATO INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c International Atlantic Economic Society   (United States)

Author keywords

Argentina; Currency; Dollarization; Monetary policy; Peso

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920753632     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0195155351.003.0023     Document Type: Chapter

References (19)

1. Banco Central de la República Argentina. (1999, January 21). Tratado de asociación monetaria. Produndizar la convertibilidad: un camino havia la Unión Monétaria Americana. Mimeograph.
2. Boughton, James M., and Alex Mourmouras. (2002, April). Is Policy Ownership an Operational Concept? IMF Working Paper 02/72.
3. Caprio, Gerard, Jr., and Daniela Klingebiel. (1999, October). Episodes of Systemic and Borderline Financial Crises. (World Bank Paper). World Bank.
4. Castro, Jorge. (1999, April 15). Global Currencies as a Central Contemporary Trend: Basis of the Dollarization Strategy and a Treaty of Monetary Association. (Working paper submitted to the Presidential Cabinet of the Argentine Republic). (Unofficial translation.)
5. Della Paolera, Gerardo, and Alan M. Taylor. (2001). Straining at the Anchor:The Argentine Currency Board and the Search for Macroeconomic Stability, 1880-1935. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
6. Dornbusch, Rudi. (2001, May). Fewer Monies, Better Monies. American Economic Review, 91, 2, 238-42.
7. Dowd, Kevin. (Ed.). (1992). The Experience of Free Banking. London:Routledge.
8. Hanke, Steve H., Lars Jonung, and Kurt Schuler. (1993). Russian Currency and Finance: A Currency Board Approach to Reform. London: Routledge.
9. Hanke, Steve H. (1999). Some Reflections on Currency Boards. In Mario I. Blejer and Marko Skreb (Eds.), Central Banking, Monetary Policies, and the Implications for Transition Economies (pp. 341-66). Boston: Kluwer Academic.
10. Hanke, Steve H., and Kurt Schuler. (1999, February 1). A Dollarization Blueprint for Argentina. Friedberg's Commodity and Currency Comments Experts' Report. Also available as Cato Institute Foreign Policy Briefing No. 52, March 11, 1999. Available online at www.cato.org/pubs/fpbriefs/fpb52.pdf.
11. Hanke, Steve H. (2002a). Questions the IMF Is Obliged to Answer. Financial Times, 17 January.
12. Hanke, Steve H. (2002b). Questions Remain Unanswered. Financial Times, 6 February.
13. Hanke, Steve H. (2002c). Putting the Banks in Charge. Latin Finance, June:39-41.
14. Hanke, Steve H. (2002d). El Novedoso Sistema Monetario Y Bancario Panameño. In Nicolas Ardito Barleta (Ed.), Panama Financiero. Bogota, Colombia: Ediciones Gamma.
15. McCulloch, J. Huston. (1986). Beyond the Historical Gold Standard. In Colin D. Campbell and William R. Dougan (Eds.), Alternative Monetary Regimes (pp. 74-75). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
16. Schuler, Kurt. (2001). Note Issue by Banks: A Step toward Free Banking in the United States? Cato Journal, 20(3), 453-65. Available online at www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj20n3-8.pdf.
17. Selgin, George A., and Lawrence H. White. (1994, December). How Would the Invisible Hand Handle Money? Journal of Economic Literature, 32(4), 1718-49. Available online at the web sites of Selgin, www.terry.uga.edu/~selgin/, and White, www.umsl.edu/~whitelh/links.html.
18. Selgin, George A. (1988). A Free Banking Approach to Reforming Hong Kong's Monetary System. Asian Monetary Monitor, 12(1), 14-24.
19. Selgin, George A. (1988). The Theory of Free Banking: Money Supply Under Competitive Note Issue. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield.