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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826197003321

Autore

Choudhri Ehsan

Titolo

The Exchange Rate Pass -Through to Import and Export Prices : : The Role of Nominal Rigidities and Currency Choice / / Ehsan Choudhri, Dalia Hakura

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2012

ISBN

1-4755-5240-8

1-4755-8061-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (35 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

IMF working paper ; ; WP/12/226

Altri autori (Persone)

HakuraDalia

Disciplina

658.3894

Soggetti

Exchange rate pass-through

Prices

Foreign Exchange

Macroeconomics

Money and Monetary Policy

Price Level

Inflation

Deflation

International Policy Coordination and Transmission

Monetary Policy

Open Economy Macroeconomics

Monetary Systems

Standards

Regimes

Government and the Monetary System

Payment Systems

Currency

Foreign exchange

Monetary economics

Export prices

Import prices

Exchange rates

Currencies

Money

Exports

Imports

United States



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"September 2012."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; I. Introduction; II. Empirical Evidence; III. The Model; A. Basic Setup; B. Key Relations; IV. Quantitative Analysis; A. Key Determinants of the Pass-Through to Trade Prices; B. Currency of Invoicing and the Pass-Through; V. Concluding Remarks; References; Tables; 1. OLS Regressions: Impact of Exchange Rate Changes on Trade Prices, 1979-2010; 2. VAR: First Quarter Trade Price Response to a One Percent Change in the Exchange Rate, 1979-2010; 3. Pass-Through Elasticities for Different Shocks

4. Wage-Price Stickiness, Exchange Rate Persistence, Inflation Reaction and the Pass-Through5. Stochastic Simulations; 6. Invoicing Currency Shares and the Pass-Through; Figures; 1. Regression and VAR Estimates of the Pass-Through; 2. Impulse Response Functions; 3. PCP Shares and the Pass-Through; Appendix Tables; 1. VAR: First Quarter Trade Price Response to a One Percent Change in the Exchange Rate 1985-1997; 2. VAR: First Quarter Trade Price Response to a One Percent Change in the Exchange Rate 1998-2010

Sommario/riassunto

Using both regression- and VAR-based estimates, the paper finds that the exchange rate pass-through to import prices for a large number of countries is incomplete and larger than the pass-through to export prices. Previous studies have reported similar results, which give rise to the puzzle that while local currency pricing is needed to account for incomplete import price pass-through, it would not imply a lower export price pass-through. Recent explanations of this puzzle have emphasized markup adjustment in response to exchange rate changes. This paper suggests an alternative explanation based on the presence of both producer and local currency pricing. Using a dynamic general equilibrium model, the paper shows that a mix of producer and local currency pricing can explain the pass-through evidence even with a constant markup. The model can also explain the observed exchange rate and inflation variability as well as the fact that the regression and VAR estimates tend to be similar.