Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/152611 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 177
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
Nominal rigidities due to menu costs have become a standard element in closed economy macroeconomic modelling. The 'New Open Economy Macroeconomics' literature has investigated the implications of nominal rigidities in an open economy context and found that the currency in which prices are set has significant macroeconomic and policy implications. In this paper we solve for the optimal invoicing choice by integrating this micoeconomic decision at the firm level into a general equilibrium open economy model. Strategic interactions between firms play a critical role in the analysis. We find that the less competition firms face in foreign markets, as reflected in market share and product differentiation, the more likely they will price in their own currency. We also show that when a set of countries forms a monetary union, the new currency is likely to be used more extensively in trade than the sum of the currencies it replaces.
Subjects: 
Currency Invoicing
Exchange Rate Pass-Through
macroeconomics
New Open Economy
JEL: 
F31
F41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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