While Japanese exports are generally considered invoiced mainly in U.S. dollars (USD), this study presents contrary evidence that most Japanese firms choose yen-invoiced exports. Surprisingly, only the top one percent of firms in size tend to choose USD-invoiced exports, based on the Japan...

As a successful competitive research bid to use Japanese customs data, this study calculates the share of trade denomination currency (invoice currency) in Japan's exports and imports by industry and country from individual export and import documents. The results clarify the characteristics of...

Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Choice of invoice currency in Japanese trade: industry- and commodity-level analysis -- 3. Findings from interviews with globally operating Japanese firms -- 4. Analysis of questionnaire surveys on head offices -- 5. Exchange rate risk management in Japanese firms...

This paper constructs a new dataset of the industry‐specific real effective exchange rate, based on the producer price indices, for Japan, China, and Korea on a monthly basis from January 2001 to February 2013 in order to provide a better indicator for export price competitiveness. By...

Japanese exporters' choice of invoice currencies is investigated using newly available official Customs declaration data, which records detailed information, including the trading partners' names, invoicing currency, and product descriptions. The strategic complementarity mechanism, that is,...