This paper investigates the relationship between the Japanese firms' exposure to the exchange rate risk and risk management, such as choice of invoicing currency, and financial and operational hedge. The firm's exposure to the exchange rate risk is estimated by co-movements of the stock prices...

This paper constructs a new dataset of the industry‐specific real effective exchange rate, based on the producer price indices, for Japan, China, and Korea on a monthly basis from January 2001 to February 2013 in order to provide a better indicator for export price competitiveness. By...

It has been a well-known puzzle why the yen has not been used more in trade invoicing among Japanese exporters. Despite the yen's status as an only fully convertible currency in Asia, two patterns stand out as puzzling features of an excessively small share of yen invoicing: First, a strong...

This paper considers a theoretical model to examine an optimal exchange rate regime for (Asian) emerging market economies that export goods to the U.S., Japan, and neighboring countries. The optimality of the exchange rate regime is defined as minimizing the fluctuation of trade balances, in the...

We analyze monetary policy in a currency union with sovereign risk by using a three-country model including a two-country currency union and introduce an ad hoc assumption that one of the two countries is exposed to sovereign risk. In our model, if expected fiscal revenue is less than current...

The purpose of this paper is to examine what forms of monetary and financial cooperation will be desirable in East Asia with a focus on the spillover effects of currency misalignment on the Japanese economy in particular, thereby obtaining implications for monetary and financial cooperation in...