Publications by Year: 2019

2019
Emine Boz, Gita Gopinath, Mikkel Plagborg-Moller. 2019. “Dollar Invoicing and the Heterogeneity of Exchange Rate Pass-Through.” American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings 109: 527-32. Publisher's Version
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Banerjee, Abhijit, Gita Gopinath, Raghuram Rajan, and Mihir Sharma, ed. 2019. What the Economy Needs Now (1). 1st ed. Juggernaut, 248. Publisher's Version
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Gopinath, Gita, Emine Boz, Camila Casas, Federico Diez, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, and Mikkel Plagborg-Moller. 2019. “Dominant Currency Paradigm”. Abstract
Most trade is invoiced in very few currencies. Yet, standard models assume prices are set in either the producer’s or destination’s currency. We present instead a ‘dominant currency paradigm’ with three key features: pricing in a dominant currency, pricing complementarities, and imported input use in production. We test this paradigm using both a newly constructed data set of bilateral price and volume indices for more than 2,500 country pairs that covers 91% of world trade, and very granular €firm-product-country data for Colombian exports and imports. In strong support of the paradigm we €find that: (1) Non-commodities terms of trade are essentially uncorrelated with exchange rates. (2) ‘The dollar exchange rate quantitatively dominates the bilateral exchange rate in price pass-through and trade elasticity regressions, and this e‚ffect is increasing in the share of imports invoiced in dollars. (3) U.S. import volumes are signi€cantly less sensitive to bilateral exchange rates, compared to other countries’ imports. (4) A 1% U.S. dollar appreciation against all other currencies predicts a 0.6% decline within a year in the volume of total trade between countries in the rest of the world, controlling for the global business cycle.
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