Document Type
Student Research Paper
Date
Spring 2018
Academic Department
Business
Faculty Advisor(s)
Dr. Hossein Varamini
Abstract
This paper seeks to compare and contrast the effects of official dollarization on three broad macroeconomic variables: interest rates, inflation and GDP growth, in Ecuador and El Salvador. The paper will facilitate a better understanding of how the same alternative to monetary policy was expected to change the macroeconomic situation in two different countries with distinct pre-dollarization circumstances by analyzing the context in which the decision to dollarize was made, what happened before and after each country implemented the USD as official currency, and evaluating dollarization’s macroeconomic costs and benefits so as to provide a prescription for countries considering dollarization.
Recommended Citation
Kopar, Lia Anastasia, "The Macroeconomics of Dollarization : A Cross-Country Examination of the Effects of Dollarization in Ecuador and El Salvador" (2018). Business: Student Scholarship & Creative Works. 3.
https://jayscholar.etown.edu/busstu/3
Notes
Senior thesis.