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Multi-destination Exporters, Market Penetration, and the Invoicing Currency of Trade
Title:
Multi-destination Exporters, Market Penetration, and the Invoicing Currency of Trade
Author:
Labbé Castillo, Felipe Andres, author.
ISBN:
9780438084148
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Physical Description:
1 electronic resource (152 pages)
General Note:
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: A.
Advisors: Brent Neiman Committee members: Michael Dinerstein; Julio Elias.
Abstract:
This paper combines Chilean customs records with industrial data and provides new evidence underlying exporters' invoicing currency decisions. Firms start selling in vehicle-currency (neither the exporter nor the importer's currency) facing direct exchange rate shocks to their price measured in local-currency (importer's currency). As they grow in top destinations, they switch to local-currency pricing. Often large exporters sell in local-currency. However, they don't sell in local-currency everywhere. They only do so in the few top destinations accounting for large share (75%) of their export portfolio. To address this fact, I build a menu-cost model featuring: (i) vehicle- currency pricing, (ii) multi-destination exporters, and (iii) decreasing returns to scale. When the price charged in destination market d deviates from optimal, it produces a profit loss that rises with the speed at which marginal cost diverges from marginal revenue. Larger markets, relative to firm-level total exports, have a greater impact on quantity produced, and consequently on marginal cost. The more significant market destination d is, the more convex the profit loss in the price gap dimension. Therefore, direct shocks to the import price become increasingly less tolerable, providing incentives to switch to local-currency pricing.
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School code: 0330
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