VEHICLE CURRENCY*International Economic Review - Tập 54 Số 1 - Trang 97-133 - 2013
Michael B. Devereux, Shouyong Shi
Historically, the world economy has been dominated by a single currency accepted
in the exchange of goods and assets among countries. In recent decades, the U.S.
dollar has played this role. The dollar acts as a “vehicle currency” in the
sense that agents in nondollar economies will generally engage in currency trade
indirectly using the U.S. dollar instead of using direct bilateral trade among
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Credible Collusion in Spatially Separated Markets*International Economic Review - Tập 44 Số 1 - Trang 299-312 - 2003
John E. Gross, William L. Holahan
In an infinitely repeated game, sellers employ a trigger strategy of mutual
forbearance from invasion of each other's markets, stabilized against invasion
by the threat of Bertrand pricing. Contrary to conventional static models, this
article shows stability for a wide range of transportation costs and present
value parameters, and that increases in transportation costs tend to destabilize
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