Such borrowing calls for collateral – in this case, the land on which construction will take place. The larger the value of the collateral, typically measured in domestic currency (or in an inflation-indexed unit, such as Chile’s Unidad de Fomento), the larger the size of the dollar loan.
假象有一家拉丁美洲零售公司，它从海外借入美元在国内建造购物城。这笔借款需要抵押品——在这个例子中是准备用于建造购物城的土地。抵押品的价值越大（常常用本币衡量，或者，在智利Unidad de Fomento公司的案例中，用通胀指数单位衡量），美元贷款的规模也越大。