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This paper examines the pass-through of cost-push shocks to customers at a granular level. Using unique firm-level survey data, we document five facts about pass-through across firms, sectors, and over time. We highlight a new channel relevant for pass-through: beliefs about the expected...
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In 2002 Uruguay faced a sudden stop of international capital flows, inducing a deep financial crisis and a large devaluation of the peso. The real exchange rate depreciated and exports expanded. Paradoxically, export shares and real exchange rates negatively correlate among Uruguayan exporters...
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the relationship between invoicing currency choices and the response of import prices to exchange rate changes. We find … that for transactions invoiced in a vehicle currency, import prices are much more sensitive to changes in the vehicle … currencies. Our results help to explain the higher-than-expected pass-through into import prices during the Great Recession and …
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, in turn, the effect of RMB-induced US import price fluctuations on US producer prices is established. In a panel spanning … affected US prices. Thus, the pre-2005 period is used to filter out the effects of other exchange rates on import and producer … prices. Additionally, utilizing the remainder of the sample, the pure effect of an RMB appreciation on US import prices and …
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This paper investigates nonlinearities in the exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) to consumer and import prices by … and import prices is found to be stronger in the nonlinear model and in some cases is close to being complete. Also, it is … stronger for import prices than for consumer prices. Both seem to be more responsive to exchange rate changes when market …
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We document how product quality responds to exchange rate movements and quantify the extent to which these quality changes affect the aggregate pass-through into export prices. We analyze the substantial sudden appreciation of the Swiss franc post removal of the 1.20-CHF-per-euro lower bound in...
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inflation environment using cross-country panel estimation of Phillips curves. It considers a large panel of OECD member and …
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The aim of this paper is to provide new empirical evidence on the impact of international financial integration on the long-run Real Exchange Rate (RER) in 39 developing countries belonging to three different geographical regions (Latin America, Asia and MENA). It covers the period 1979-2004,...
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We investigate theoretically and empirically how exporters adjust their markups across destinations depending on bilateral distance, tariffs, and the quality of their exports. Under the assumption that trade costs are both ad valorem and per unit, our model predicts that markups rise with...
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This paper challenges the common assumption of market segmentation in international trade. To analyze export entry and pricing decisions of firms in integrated vs. segmented markets, we develop a novel tractable approach based on stochastic export costs that allows us to compare firm-level and...
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