Partial dollarization: A currency-matching rule and its implications for monetary policy and welfare



Título del documento: Partial dollarization: A currency-matching rule and its implications for monetary policy and welfare
Revista: Revista venezolana de análisis de coyuntura
Base de datos: CLASE
Número de sistema: 000252553
Autores: 1
Instituciones: 1University of Warwick, Warwick, Warwickshire. Reino Unido
Año:
Periodo: Ene-Jun
Volumen: 10
Número: 1
Paginación: 201-250
País: Venezuela
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Analítico
Resumen en inglés This paper contributes to previous studies of partially-dollarized economy inflation targeting by incorporating the effect of a currency-matching rule. Specifically, such a rule implies imposing a restriction to credit dollarization in order to guarantee that any form of foreign-currency-denominated debt (or bank credit) is solely allocated to the export business sector of the eco nomy. The results are straightforward. When the economy is not financially exposed to real exchange rate risk: (i) the volatility of the major macroeconomic variables is reduced, reflecting gains in terms of welfare, and (ii) the optimal policy reaction function becomes less responsive to changes in the risk premium and the foreign interest rate, and more reactive to movements in the output gap and expected inflation. The consequences from (i) and (ii) suggest that the advice that calls for liability de-dollarization in small open economies, should solely apply to the non-export business sector
Disciplinas: Economía
Palabras clave: Economía monetaria,
Condiciones económicas,
Dolarización,
Política monetaria,
Flotación cambiaria,
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