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Pass-Through of Exchange Rates and Competition between Floaters and Fixers

Bergin, Paul R. - 2010

This paper studies how a rise in China's share of U.S. imports could lower pass-through of exchange rates to U.S. import prices. We develop a theoretical model with variable markups showing that the presence of exports from a country with a fixed exchange rate could alter the competitive...

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Bias in U.S. Import Prices and Demand

Feenstra, Robert C.; Shiells, Clinton R. - 2021

The purpose of the paper is to measure the potential bias in the U.S. import price index due to the appearance of new product varieties, or new foreign suppliers, and determine the effect of this bias on the estimated income elasticity of import demand. Existing import price indexes are based on...

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U.S. Imports, Exports, and Tariff Data, 1989-2001

Feenstra, Robert C.; Romalis, John; Schott, Peter K. - 2021

This paper describes the updating of the NBER trade dataset, which now provides U.S. import and export values to the year 2001, disaggregated by Harmonized System (HS), Standard International Trade Classification (SITC), and the U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) categories. In...

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Conditional PPP and Real Exchange Rate Convergence in the Euro Area

Bergin, Paul R. - 2016

euro currency union abandoned their national exchange rates, the adjustment of real exchange rates toward purchasing power … mechanism and as a source of shocks. We find evidence that prior to joining the euro currency union, member countries relied …. But the loss of the exchange rate as an adjustment mechanism after the introduction of the euro was more than compensated …

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