IIMR Webinar February 20th, 2024. Steve Hanke 'Dollarization in Argentina: necessary and feasible'

Q&A Version. Steve Hanke from Johns Hopkins University explores what dollarisation of Argentina would involve. By kind permission of Professor Hanke this video includes the question and answer session at the end. This is one of the IIMR Monetary Webinar series, winter term 2024.
Hosted by IIMR Director Damian Pudner in collaboration with the Vinson Centre for the Public Understanding of Economics and Entrepreneurship at the University of Buckingham.

[@gabnrami]

Excellent thanks for uploading the full video. The q&a from hanke were great. The time was short, and he was very clear with Argentina’s problemas, specially talking about “anomy”. but if the anomy is the rule, a dollarization would not help with that, a new law will force a dedollaarization like what happened in Zimbabwe. I still think a currency board will suit Argentina much better than a dollarization, and would be easier and faster to implement. Argentina needs to respect the rule of law and a currency board could help more with that than a dollarization. But it’s an academic talk, and Argentina needs as soon as possible a currency reform, a dollarization or a currency board.

[@abhishekpande8095]

Looking at the history of Argentina priority should be stability ( social, political.).dollarization cannot function smoothly if the financial institutions are not cooperative.