Book of Donmon Teith

In the last decade, a group of Latin American countries (Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay) experienced a gradual, yet sustained decline in financial dollari

We re-appraise the cross-country evidence on the dollarization of financial systems in emerging market economies. Amidst striking heterogeneity of patterns acro

The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a

Despite significant strides in financial development over the past decades, financial dollarization, as reflected in elevated shares of foreign currency deposit

A major, new, and comprehensive look at six decades of macroeconomic policies across the region What went wrong with the economic development of Latin America o