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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments August 20, 2020 erstellt
Beschreibung:
This paper uses a Synthetic Control Analysis to examine the economic effectiveness of dollarization in Ecuador. We address common concerns surrounding the adoption of dollarization as a policy and provide several solutions to those concerns. We find that dollarization resulted in significant higher levels of income without clear evidence of worsening in social health variables such as infant mortality, poverty, and income distribution