nmm 22 4500 ICPSR01250 MiAaI m f a u cr mn mmmmuuuu 140714s2002 miu f a eng d (MiAaI)ICPSR01250 MiAaI MiAaI Dollarization as a Monetary Arrangement for Emerging Market Economies [electronic resource] Gaetano Antinolfi , Todd Kliester 2002-03-08 Ann Arbor, Mich. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor] 2002 ICPSR 1250 Numeric Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2014-07-14. AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to the general public. Also available as downloadable files. Official dollarization refers to the adoption of the United States dollar as legal tender in place of the national currency. Some Latin American countries have recently dollarized, and others have seriously considered dollarization. This article discusses the reasons behind the surge of interest in dollarization and provides a review of the new academic literature on the topic. It discusses in detail some of the factors that are commonly considered to be the important costs and benefits of dollarizing. The paper also provides an analysis of the existing liability dollarization in several countries and its relation with official dollarization. Finally, it briefly looks at dollarization from the perspective of the United States. Cf.: http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR01250.v1 currencies icpsr dollar (USA) icpsr international monetary system icpsr market economy icpsr ICPSR XVIII. Replication Datasets Antinolfi, Gaetano Kliester, Todd Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. ICPSR (Series) 1250 Access restricted ; authentication may be required: http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR01250.v1