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Oil Currency and the Dollar Standard: A Simple Analytical Model of an International Trade Currency

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  • MICHAEL B. DEVEREUX
  • KANG SHI
  • JUANYI XU

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The U.S. dollar is the central reference currency for international trade pricing and the main invoicing currency for primary commodities. This paper links these two observations within a stylized theoretical framework, and shows how to obtain a quantitative estimate of the gain to the U.S. economy when the dollar is a reference currency. With dollar invoicing of primary commodities, U.S. firms bear less exchange rate risk than foreign firms. This asymmetry leads to a dollar standard in international goods pricing. We then derive a simple analytical formula to calculate the gains and find that they are extremely small. Copyright (c) 2010 The Ohio State University.

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  • Michael B. Devereux & Kang Shi & Juanyi Xu, 2010. "Oil Currency and the Dollar Standard: A Simple Analytical Model of an International Trade Currency," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 42(4), pages 521-550, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:mcb:jmoncb:v:42:y:2010:i:4:p:521-550
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