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The Structural Determinants of Invoice Currencies in Japan: The Case of Foreign Trades with East Asian Countries

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This paper investigates why invoice rations of the Japanese yen are relatively low for Japan's foreign trades. The first part of the paper investigates the determinants of invoice currencies in Japan's exports with East Asian countries. Focusing on the heavy reliance of Japan's exports on the United States, we show that "pricing-to-market"(PTM) behavior of Japanese exporters may explain the choice of invoice currency by Japanese exports well. The second part of the paper considers other structural determinants of the invoice currencies. In the analysis, we focus on invoice currency rations in Japan's imports and on the relation between invoice ratios and the trade dependency. We show that low yen-invoiced rations are mainly caused by the large shares of oil and raw materials in Japan's imports. We also show that recent changes in Japan's invoice currency ratios are due to the changing trade dependency to the United States.

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  • Shin-ichi Fukuda, 1995. "The Structural Determinants of Invoice Currencies in Japan: The Case of Foreign Trades with East Asian Countries," Discussion Paper Series a307, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.
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    1. Shin-ichi Fukuda & Sanae Ohno, 2003. "Exchange Rate Regimes in East Asia after the Crisis: Implications from Intra-daily Data," CIRJE F-Series CIRJE-F-247, CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo.
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    3. Shin-ichi Fukuda, 2002. "Post-crisis Exchange Rate Regimes in East Asia," CIRJE F-Series CIRJE-F-181, CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo.
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    5. Tse, Y. K. & Ng, L. K., 1997. "The cointegration of Asian currencies revisited," Japan and the World Economy, Elsevier, vol. 9(1), pages 109-114, March.
    6. Shin-ichi Fukuda & Masanori Ono, 2004. "The Choice of Invoice Currency under Uncertainty: Theory and Evidence from Korea (Subsequently published in "Journal of the Korean Economy" Vol.6 No.2 Fall 2005. )," CARF F-Series CARF-F-001, Center for Advanced Research in Finance, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo.
    7. Shin-ichi Fukuda & Masanori Ono, 2006. "On the Determinants of Exporters' Currency Pricing: History vs. Expectations (Subsequently published in "Journal of the Japanese and International Economies", Vol.18, No.4, December 2006, pp," CARF F-Series CARF-F-080, Center for Advanced Research in Finance, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo.
    8. Shin-ichi Fukuda & Masanori Ono, 2004. "The Choice of Invoice Currency under Uncertainty: Theory and Evidence from Korea," CIRJE F-Series CIRJE-F-271, CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo.

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