The Effect of the Dollar on Trade Prices
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The Effect of the Dollar on Trade Prices
CESifo Working Paper No. 8727
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 03 Dec 2020
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Date Written: 2020
Abstract
This paper provides evidence on the effect of the dollar exchange rate on international trade prices, employing a new instrument for the U.S. dollar based on U.S. domestic housing activity (Ma and Zhang (2019)). In line with the dominant currency paradigm (Gopinath et al. (2020)), when instrumenting the dollar, we find evidence for a perfect pass-through of the dollar exchange rate to import prices that are invoiced in dollars.
Keywords: dominant currency, dollar invoicing, international trade
JEL Classification: F140, f310, G150
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Ma, Sai and Schmidt-Eisenlohr, Tim and Zhang, Shaojun, The Effect of the Dollar on Trade Prices (2020). CESifo Working Paper No. 8727, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3741800 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3741800
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