A currency's role as the unit of account in which trade is invoiced and its role as a safe store of value reinforce each other, because households who buy dollar-priced imports want dollar-denominated …
PublishedClassicHandbook of International EconomicsPublished Jan 2022
A Handbook chapter reviewing the breakdown of covered interest rate parity during the Global Financial Crisis and its persistence through the following decade -- how the cross-currency basis is …
Because most trade is invoiced in a few dominant currencies rather than in the producer's or the destination's currency, it is the dollar exchange rate and not the bilateral one that drives import …
PublishedClassicQuarterly Journal of EconomicsOnline 3 May 2021Published Jun 2021
Because global firms raise capital through subsidiaries incorporated in tax havens, official residency-based statistics attribute those securities to the haven rather than to the parent's country; …
This paper develops a continuous-time method for solving heterogeneous-agent models with aggregate shocks by linearizing around a nonlinearly computed stationary equilibrium (extending Reiter's …