Import competition from China is pervasive in the sense that for many good categories, the competitive environment that … 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 …

firm-level market shares and price complementarities affect pass-through decisions. Using micro-data from U.S. import … are also the ones that react the least to changing competitor prices. Second, the response of import Prices to exchange …

large deviations from the law of one price and incomplete pass-through on import prices. Consistent with the received wisdom …

import prices. One explanation is local distribution costs. Here we consider an alternative, complementary explanation based … case the pass-through to import prices is complete, while the pass-through to consumer prices is zero. …

Understanding how import prices adjust to exchange rates helps anticipate inflation effects and monetary policy … 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 …

value added; the lower the import content of consumption, the higher the exchange rate volatility implied by optimal …

theoretical framework that combines variable markups due to strategic complementarities and endogenous choice to import … intermediate inputs. The model predicts that firms with high import shares and high market shares have low exchange rate pass … destination and imports by source country. We confirm that import intensity and market share are the prime determinants of pass …