01755cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF001319 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451856637 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Terrones, Marco. Determinants of Dollarization : The Banking Side / Marco Terrones, Luis Catao. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2000. 1 online resource (37 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Dollarization in financial intermediation has exhibited a widely diverse pattern across countries. Empirical work relating it to macroeconomic variables has had only limited success in explaining the phenomenon. This paper presents a two-currency banking model to show that deposit and loan dollarization are determined by a broader set of factors. These include interest rates and exchange rate risk, as well as structural factors related to costly banking, credit market imperfections, and availability of tradable collateral. The direction in which dollarization tends to move with macroeconomic shocks is shown to depend on those factors as well as on initial dollarization levels. Mode of access: Internet Catao, Luis. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2000/146 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2000/146/001.2000.issue-146-en.xml IMF e-Library