Dominant currency paradigm: A review

G Gopinath, O Itskhoki - Handbook of international economics, 2022 - Elsevier
A handful of currencies, especially the US dollar, play a dominant role in international trade.
We survey the active theoretical and empirical literature that documents patterns of currency …

Importers, exporters, and exchange rate disconnect

M Amiti, O Itskhoki, J Konings - American Economic Review, 2014 - aeaweb.org
Large exporters are simultaneously large importers. We show that this pattern is key to
understanding low aggregate exchange rate pass-through as well as the variation in pass …

Trade liberalization, intermediate inputs, and productivity: Evidence from Indonesia

M Amiti, J Konings - American economic review, 2007 - aeaweb.org
This paper estimates the productivity gains from reducing tariffs on final goods and from
reducing tariffs on intermediate inputs. Lower output tariffs can increase productivity by …

Dominant currencies: How firms choose currency invoicing and why it matters

M Amiti, O Itskhoki, J Konings - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We analyze how firms choose the currency of invoicing and the implications of this choice for
exchange rate pass-through into export prices and quantities. Using a new data set for …

Trade linkages and the globalisation of inflation in Asia and the Pacific

RA Auer, A Mehrotra - Journal of International Money and Finance, 2014 - Elsevier
Some observers argue that increased real integration has led to greater co-movement of
prices internationally. We examine the evidence for cross-border price spillovers among …

Industry heterogeneity and exchange rate pass-through

C Casas - Journal of International Money and Finance, 2020 - Elsevier
In the presence of price rigidities, nominal exchange rate fluctuations can have real effects
on the economy. External shocks may have differentiated effects across economic sectors …

The skill‐biased effects of exchange rate fluctuations

B Kaiser, M Siegenthaler - The Economic Journal, 2016 - academic.oup.com
This article examines the linkages between real exchange rate movements and firms' skill
demand. Augmenting the model of Campa and Goldberg with heterogeneous labour, we …

Backward participation in global value chains and exchange rate driven adjustments of Swiss exports

D Fauceglia, A Lassmann, A Shingal… - Review of World …, 2018 - Springer
This paper examines the effect of exchange rate movements on export volume, export
revenues and propensity to export taking into account the extent of foreign value added …

The real effects of invoicing exports in dollars

A Berthou, G Horny, JS Mésonnier - Journal of International Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
Exporting firms face foreign exchange risk when the export contract is invoiced in a foreign
currency. For instance, for firms located outside of the United States, the US dollar is often …

Exchange rate fluctuations and quality composition of exports: Evidence from Swiss product‐level data

D Fauceglia - The World Economy, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This paper studies the relationship between exchange rate movements and the average
export quality using disaggregated Swiss product‐level data between 1996 and 2015. We …