determine the extent to which nationalcurrencies across the world belong to a reserve currency bloc. We then use these estimates …. The British poundand the Japanese yen blocs appear to play minor roles …

.S. dollar is a key predictor of rest-of-world aggregate trade volume and consumer/producer price inflation. A 1 percent U ….S. dollar appreciation against all other currencies in the world predicts a 0.6-0.8 percent decline within a year in the volume … of total trade between countries in the rest of the world, controlling for the global business cycle. 4) Using a novel …

accompanied by an increase in the shares of the pound sterling, yen and euro, other long-standing reserve currencies and units …

The yen is an important barometer for the Japanese economy. Depreciations are typically associated with favorable … Japan's efforts to reflate the domestic economy and achieve the inflation target. This paper takes a closer look at … underlying drivers of rapid yen appreciations, highlighting the key role of carry-trade and the zero lower bound as important …