The Dollarization of a Small Economy
在一个效用最大化框架下，研究小型开放经济体用美元替代本币的影响，发现流动性下降、消费减少和贸易顺差，并探讨美国通过补偿促使货币转换的福利效应。
Within a utility maximizing framework, the authors study the effects of repl acing the national currency with the dollar in a small, open economy. The impact effect is a drop in the levels of liquidity and wealth. The economy reaccumulat es real balances by reducing consumption and showing a trade surplus. The welfar e implications of the program depend on thesocial rate of time preference and t he inflation rate differential. The authors show that the United States can impr ove both its own welfare and that of the small country by "bribing" it into switching currencies, and study how these results change with the introduction of capital mobility. Copyright 1987 by The editors of the Scandinavian Journal of Economics.