Title: Currency substitution - Wikipedia
Headings: Currency substitution
Currency substitution
Contents
Name
Origins
Measures
Types
Effects
On trade and investment
On monetary and exchange rate policies
On banking systems
Determinants of the currency substitution process
The dynamics of the flight from domestic money
Institutional factors
Anchor currencies
Australian dollar
Euro
Indian rupee
New Zealand dollar
Pound Sterling
South African rand
US dollar
Countries/regions using the US dollar exclusively
Countries using the US dollar alongside other currencies
Others
See also
References
Footnotes
Works cited

Content: The collapse of "soft" pegs in Southeast Asia and Latin America in the late 1990s led to currency substitution becoming a serious policy issue. A few cases of full currency substitution prior to 1999 had been the consequence of political and historical factors. In all long-standing currency substitution cases, historical and political reasons have been more influential than an evaluation of the economic effects of currency substitution. Panama adopted the US dollar as legal tender after independence as the result of a constitutional ruling. Ecuador and El Salvador became fully dollarized economies in 2000 and 2001 respectively, for different reasons. Ecuador underwent currency substitution to deal with a widespread political and financial crisis resulting from massive loss of confidence in its political and monetary institutions. By contrast, El Salvador's official currency substitution was a result of internal debates and in a context of stable macroeconomic fundamentals and long-standing unofficial currency substitution. The eurozone adopted the euro (€) as its common currency and sole legal tender in 1999, which might be considered a variety of full-commitment regime similar to full currency substitution despite some evident differences from other currency substitutions. For more on dollarisation, cf. Fields, David, and Matías Vernengo. "