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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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theoretical and empirical literature that documents patterns of currency use in global trade, the implications of dominant … policy. We describe advances in the endogenous currency choice literature including conditions for the emergence and … persistence of dominant currency equilibria …
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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 … staggered price setting with endogenous currency choice. Our structural specification provides a new test of the allocative … consequences of nominal rigidities, by estimating the treatment effect of foreign-currency price stickiness on the dynamic response …
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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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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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A central assumption of open economy macro models with nominal rigidities relates to the currency in which goods are … priced, whether there is so-called producer currency pricing or local currency pricing. This has important implications for … exchange rate pass-through and optimal exchange rate policy. We show, using novel transaction level information on currency and …
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