Dominant Currencies and External Adjustment

This SDN documents features of international trade & finance, explores their implications for how exchange rates can help external rebalancing and buffer shoks.
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Volume/Issue: Volume 2020 Issue 005
Publication date: July 2020
ISBN: 9781513512150
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Exports and Imports , Investments and Securities-General , Money and Monetary Policy , SDN , currency pricing , financing currency , Colombian peso , currency financing , expenditure switching , invoicing data , invoicing currency , Currencies , Exchange rates , Exports , Depreciation , Imports , Global , trade pricing , trade invoicing , exchange rate , external adjustment

Summary

The extensive use of the US dollar when firms set prices for international trade (dubbed dominant currency pricing) and in their funding (dominant currency financing) has come to the forefront of policy debate, raising questions about how exchange rates work and the benefits of exchange rate flexibility. This Staff Discussion Note documents these features of international trade and finance and explores their implications for how exchange rates can help external rebalancing and buffer macroeconomic shocks.