Journal Article
Dollarization and monetary sovereignty: the case of Argentina
Humpage, Owen F.; Altig, David E. (1999-09)
In January, President Menim of Argentina proposed strengthening his country's commitment to monetary stability by replacing the peso with the U.S. dollar. Dollarization leaves Argentina without a lender of last resort, but the Federal Reserve's current operating procedure combines with existing Argentine arrangements to mitigate this drawback.
Economic Commentary , Issue Sep

Report
What can we learn from the current crisis in Argentina?
Kehoe, Timothy J. (2003)
Currently, Argentina is experiencing what the government describes as a "great depression." Using the "Great Depressions" methodology developed by Cole and Ohanian (1999) and Kehoe and Prescott (2002), we find that the primary determinants of both the boom in Argentina in the 1990s and the subsequent depression were changes in productivity, rather than changes in factor inputs. The timing of events links the boom to the currency-board-like Convertibility Plan and the crisis to its collapse. To gain credibility, the Argentine government took measures to make abandoning the plan more ...
Staff Report , Paper 318

Journal Article
Argentina: the end of convertibility
Quispe-Agnoli, Myriam; Kay, Stephen J. (2002-01)
EconSouth , Volume 4 , Issue Q1 , Pages 14-19