Dollarization and De-dollarization in Transitional Economies of Southeast Asia

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kubo, Koji (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: IDE-JETRO Series
• Subjects: Macroeconomics.; Development economics.; Asia > Economic conditions.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Economics.; Asian Economics.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.; Regional/Spatial Science.; Development Economics.

This book sheds light on the dollarization trends of four transitional economies in Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam. Moving beyond the tendency to focus on the Latin American experience of dollarization and prolonged high inflation, the chapters in this book compare how payme...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Dollarization and de-dollarization in transitional economies of Southeast Asia: An overview
• Chapter 2. Dollarization in Cambodia: Behavior of households and enterprises in a highly dollarized environment
• Chapter 3. Asset substitution and currency substitution behind dollarization in the Lao PDR: Recent evidence from bank-level data of foreign currency deposits
• Chapter  4. Dollarization in Myanmar?
• Chapter 5. Dollarization and de-dollarization policies: the case of Vietnam
• Chapter  6. Economic Growth, monetary policy, and dollarization in the CLMV countries
• Chapter 7. Banking and dollarization: A comparative study of Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Vietnam.