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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958453503321

Autore

Hinds Manuel

Titolo

Playing monopoly with the devil : dollarization and domestic currencies in developing countries / / Manuel Hinds

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2006

ISBN

9786611730543

9781281730541

1281730548

9780300129779

0300129777

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (xxxix, 255 p.) ) : ill

Disciplina

332.4/91724

Soggetti

Money - Developing countries

Currency question - Developing countries

Monetary policy - Developing countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Council on Foreign Relations book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-248) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The standard of value and the reversed liquidity trap -- The unfulfilled promises in the financial system -- The unfulfilled promises in trade and growth -- The costs of stability -- Missing financial globalization -- The financial risks of monetary regimes -- The currency origins of financial crises -- The myth of the lender of last resort -- The solution of crises and the aftermath -- The counterfactuals -- The conventional optimal currency area theory -- Toward a redefinition of an optimal currency area.

Sommario/riassunto

Why should a developing country surrender its power to create money by adopting an international currency as its own? This comprehensive book explores the currency problems that developing countries face and offers sound, practical advice for policy makers on how to deal with them. Manuel Hinds, who has extensive experience in real-world economic policy making, challenges the myths that surround domestic currencies and shows the clear rationality for dollarization or the use of a standard international currency.The book opens with an entertaining story of the Devil, who, through a series of common macroeconomic



maneuvers, coaches the president of a mythical country into financial ruin. This ruler's path is not unlike that taken in several real developing countries, to their detriment. Hinds goes on to introduce new ways of thinking about financial systems and monetary behavior in Third World countries.