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, which refers to price stability and high employment, and in which the exchange rate and other international variables matter … heavily shaped by the distinctive circumstances of the last three decades, when the influence of international considerations … on Fed policy has been limited. I discuss how the Federal Reserve paid significant attention to international …
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This paper studies the potential of a cryptocurrency to become a medium of exchange. We use evidence from a natural experiment: In September 2021, El Salvador became the first country in the world to make bitcoin legal tender, and all economic agents were required to accept bitcoin for all...
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We develop a theory of exchange rate fluctuations arising from financial institutions' demand for dollar liquid assets. Financial flows are unpredictable and may leave banks "scrambling for dollars." Because of settlement frictions in interbank markets, a precautionary demand for dollar reserves...
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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 use in global trade, the implications of dominant … currencies for international transmission of shocks, exchange rate pass-through, expenditure switching, and optimal monetary …
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Over time, there has been a tendency for political jurisdictions and residents to converge on a single currency … uniform currency, insofar as it is free of counterparty and liquidity risk, facilitates economic activity. But will digital … maintain their stability is doubtful. The one unit that can clearly meet these challenges is central bank digital currency. But …
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Using new data on currency invoicing for Belgian firms, we analyze how firms make their currency choice, for both … our estimating equations from a theoretical framework featuring variable markups, international input sourcing, and … staggered price setting with endogenous currency choice. Our structural specification provides a new test of the allocative …
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More than half of U.S. currency circulates abroad. As a result, much of the seignorage income of the United States is … foreign demand for its currency. In the absence of such demand, the model implies that the Friedman rule--deflation at the … foreign demand for domestic currency is taken into account, the Friedman rule ceases to be Ramsey optimal. Calibrated versions …
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The use of different currencies in the invoicing of international trade transactions plays a major role in the … international transmission of economic fluctuations. Existing studies argue that an exporter's invoicing choice reflects structural … to be invoiced in the importer's currency. We offer a potential theoretical explanation for the empirical link between …
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We show that "commodity currency" exchange rates have remarkably robust power in predicting global commodity prices …
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establishment of currency unions, the monetizing of recently acquired colonies, preferential trade arrangements, and customs unions …
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