Has the Euro Affected the Choice of Invoicing Currency?

51 Pages Posted: 23 Jan 2012

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Jenny E. Ligthart

Tilburg University - CentER, Department of Economics; University of Groningen - Faculty of Economics and Business; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)

Sebastian Werner

Catholic University of Louvain (UCL)

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Date Written: January 12, 2012

Abstract

We present a new approach to study empirically the effect of the introduction of the euro on the pattern of currency invoicing. Our approach uses a compositional multinomial logit model, in which currency choice is explained by both currency-specific and country-specific determinants. We use unique quarterly panel data on the invoicing of Norwegian imports from OECD countries for the 1996-2006 period. We find that eurozone countries have substantially increased their share of home currency invoicing after the introduction of the euro, whereas the home currency share of non-eurozone countries fell slightly. In addition, the euro as a vehicle currency has overtaken the role of the US dollar in Norwegian imports. The substantial rise in producer currency invoicing by eurozone countries is primarily caused by a drop in inflation volatility and can only to a small extent be explained by an unobserved euro effect.

Keywords: Euro, invoicing currency, exchange rate risk, inflation volatility, vehicle currencies, compositional multinomial logit

JEL Classification: F33, F41, F42, E31, C25

Suggested Citation

Ligthart, Jenny E. and Werner, Sebastian, Has the Euro Affected the Choice of Invoicing Currency? (January 12, 2012). ECB Working Paper No. 1414, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1984052 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1984052

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