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This paper establishes a causal link between the dollar exchange rate and international trade flows, employing a new instrument for the U.S. Dollar that is based on domestic U.S. housing activity (Ma and Zhang (2019)). In line with the dominant currency paradigm (Gopinath et al. (2020)), import...
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We propose a "debt view" to explain the dominant international role of the dollar and provide broad empirical support for it. Within a simple capital structure model in which firms optimally choose the currency composition of their debt, we derive conditions under which all firms issue debt in a...
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the world earning a positive net investment income. To rationalize this phenomenon, I propose a different theory about the … dollar exchange rate. In the model, world financial intermediaries demand US safe assets for their convenience value, but US … intermediaries do not demand foreign safe assets. Under an aggregate symmetric financial shock, the rest of the world buys more safe …
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