01847cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF002154 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451859577 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Ize, Alain. Dollarization, Monetary Policy, and the Pass-Through / Alain Ize, Eric Parrado. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002. 1 online resource (34 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 This paper explores how real dollarization (dollar indexing of wages), financial dollarization (dollar denomination of financial contracts), and monetary policy interact in a general equilibrium, new open-economy macroeconomics model with real shocks. Real dollarization is avoided as long as the home monetary authorities conduct monetary policy optimally (maximize local welfare). Suboptimal monetary policies are more likely to induce real dollarization when the correlation between domestic and external shocks is high, since in this case the (presumably optimal) foreign monetary policy guarantees a better level of protection against macroeconomic uncertainty. While real dollarization contributes to financial dollarization, important asymmetries between the two were found. Mode of access: Internet Parrado, Eric. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/188 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2002/188/001.2002.issue-188-en.xml IMF e-Library