We study firm-level pricing behavior through the lens of exchange rate pass-through and provide new evidence on how … firm-level market shares and price complementarities affect pass-through decisions. Using micro-data from U.S. import …. Finally, based on the model, we find that direct cost pass-through and price complementarities play approximately equally …

drive a wedge between prices across countries at both wholesale and retail level. Optimal pricing thus results in possibly … international price discrimination by firms. Distributing traded goods to consumers requires non-tradables, intensive in local … labour. Because of distributive trade the price elasticity of demand depends on country-specific shocks to productivity and …

on the optimal pricing strategies of firms. We consider a model where foreign exporting firms sell intermediate goods to … that they prefer to price in domestic currency, while exporting firms tend to price in the exporter's currency. In that …

responses. This paper examines exchange rate passthrough to the monthly import price index in South Africa during 1980-2009. A … structural model, yet without neglecting the long-run relationships between prices or the effects of previous import price …

US firms face in these markets is strongly driven by the prices of Chinese imports, and so is their pricing decision … up to 519 manufacturing sectors, import price changes of Chinese goods pass into US producer prices at an average rate of … 0.7, while import price changes that can be traced back to exchange rate movements of other trade partners only have …

price flexibility in fostering relative price adjustment. This view has been recently criticized on the ground that, to the …