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Currency Choice and Exchange Rate Pass-through. Gopinath, Gita, Oleg Itskhoki, and Roberto Rigobon, 2010, Paper. "We show, using novel data on currency and prices for US imports, that even conditional on a price change, there is a large difference in the exchange rate pass-through of the average good priced in dollars (25 percent) versus nondollars (95 percent). We document this to be the case across countries and within disaggregated sectors. This finding contradicts the assumption in an important class of models that the currency of pricing is exogenous. We present a model of endogenous currency choice in a dynamic price..."