Carry Trade vs. Deposit-Driven Euroization

Download or read book Carry Trade vs. Deposit-Driven Euroization written by Ms.Nan Geng and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial “euroization”—or “dollarization” outside of Central and Eastern Europe—is typically analyzed as a singular phenomenon that can be traced to a common set of factors. This paper argues that two types of euroization need to be distinguished, which have different causes, economic consequences, and policy implications: carry trade euroization that emerges when households and corporations seek to exploit interest rate differentials between foreign currency loans and local currency deposits, and deposit-driven euroization that is rooted in distrust in the local currency as a savings vehicle. We present a theoretical framework that sketches key features of both euroization types, and test it with data from 28 Emerging European and Central Asian economies.