Dominant Currency Dynamics: Evidence on Dollar-invoicing from UK Exporters

Meredith Crowley, Lu Han and Minkyu Son

Cambridge Working Papers in Economics from Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge

Abstract: How do the choices of individual firms contribute to the dominance of a currency in global trade? Using export transactions data from the UK over 2010-2016, we document strong evidence of two mechanisms that promote the use of a dominant currency: (1) prior experience: the probability that a firm invoices its exports to a new market in a dominant currency is increasing in the number of years the firm has used the dominant currency in its existing markets; (2) strategic complementarity: a firm is more likely to invoice its exports in the currency chosen by the majority of its competitors in a foreign destination market in order to stabilize its residual demand in that market. We show that the introduction of a managerial fixed cost of currency management into a model of invoicing currency choice yields dynamic paths of currency choice that match our empirical findings.

Keywords: Exchange rate; invoicing currency; firm-level trade; vehicle currency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 F31 F41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-11-26
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Note: mc865, ms2375
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