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The Real Effects of Invoicing Exports in Dollars

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  • Antoine Berthou

    (Centre de recherche de la Banque de France - Banque de France, CEPII - Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales - Centre d'analyse stratégique)

  • Guillaume Horny

    (Centre de recherche de la Banque de France - Banque de France)

  • Jean-Stéphane Mésonnier

    (ECON - Département d'économie (Sciences Po) - Sciences Po - Sciences Po - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre de recherche de la Banque de France - Banque de France)

Abstract

Exporting firms face foreign exchange risk when the export contract is invoiced in a foreign currency. For instance, for firms located outside of the United States, the US dollar is often used as a vehicle currency. The cost of hedging against this risk represents an additional trade cost for exporters, which is specific to the targeted destination. In this paper, we exploit an episode of heightened tensions in the USD/EUR foreign exchange market in July 2011, which increased the cost of hedging against US dollar fluctuations for French exporters. Using disaggregated information on bank balance sheets, bank-firm relationships and individual export flows for France, we show that exporters with a higher propensity to use hedging instruments reduced more their exports to "US dollar destinations" after this shock. For the average "treated" individual export flow in our sample, the increased hedging cost is equivalent to a counterfactual rise in trade costs by about 3 percentage points.

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  • Antoine Berthou & Guillaume Horny & Jean-Stéphane Mésonnier, 2022. "The Real Effects of Invoicing Exports in Dollars," Post-Print hal-03560975, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03560975
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2022.103569
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    2. Marco Garofalo & Giovanni Rosso & Roger Vicquéry, 2024. "Dominant Currency Pricing Transition," Economics Series Working Papers 1044, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
    3. Kim, Youngju & Lim, Hyunjoon & Yun, Youngjin, 2024. "International transmission of the U.S. dollar liquidity shock: The channel of FX borrowing and lending," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 150(C).
    4. Antoine Berthou & Julia Schmidt, 2022. "Title: Non-residents held more shares in French CAC 40 companies in 2021 [La transmission des variations du taux de change aux prix des importations en France : le rôle des monnaies de facturation]," Bulletin de la Banque de France, Banque de France, issue 242.

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    • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade
    • F42 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - International Policy Coordination and Transmission
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies

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