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Market Share and Exchange Rate Pass-Through in World Automobile Trade
Feenstra, Robert C.; Gagnon, Joseph; Knetter, Michael M. - 2022
This paper explores the relationship between exchange rate pass-through and market share for monopolistically competitive exporters. Under fairly general assumptions we show that pass-through should be high for exporters based in a country with a very large share of total destination market...
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Income Differences and Prices of Tradables : Insights from an Online Retailer
Simonovska, Ina - 2010
features prices across retail locations around the world, suggesting that variable mark-ups play a key role in accounting for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139751
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Price Setting in Online Markets : Basic Facts, International Comparisons, and Cross-Border Integration
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2014
We document basic facts about prices in online markets in the U.S. and Canada, a rapidly growing segment of the retail sector. Relative to prices in regular stores, prices in online markets are more flexible as well as exhibit stronger pass-through (60-75 percent) and faster convergence...
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Export Prices and Exchange Rates
Kravis, Irving B.; Lipsey, Robert E.; Kalter, Eliot R.J - 2022
The present paper is intended to make a modest contribution to an under-standing of one small but important link in this complicated chain of interacting factors. It is a link that has often been ignored because strong simplifying assumptions have until very recently usually been made about it....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013294696
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In Search of Real Rigidities
Gopinath, Gita - 2010
The closed and open economy literatures work on evaluating the role of real rigidities, but in parallel. This paper brings the two literatures together. We use international price data and exchange rate shocks to evaluate the importance of real rigidities in price setting. We show that...
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Pass-Through in Retail and Wholesale
Nakamura, Emi - 2010
This paper studies how prices comove across products, firms and locations to gauge the relative importance of retailer versus manufacturer-level shocks in determining prices. I make use of a large panel data set on prices for a cross-section of retailers in the U.S. I analyze prices at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759358
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International Prices and Exchange Rates
Burstein, Ariel T. - 2013
We survey the recent empirical and theoretical developments in the literature on the relation between prices and exchange rates. After updating some of the major findings in the empirical literature we present a simple framework to interpret this evidence. We review theoretical models that...
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Global Trade and the Dollar
Boz, Emine - 2017
.S. dollar is a key predictor of rest-of-world aggregate trade volume and consumer/producer price inflation. A 1% U.S. dollar … appreciation against all other currencies in the world predicts a 0.6--0.8% decline within a year in the volume of total trade … between countries in the rest of the world, controlling for the global business cycle. 4) Using a novel Bayesian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944154
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Dominant Currencies : How Firms Choose Currency Invoicing and Why it Matters
Amiti, Mary; Itskhoki, Oleg; Konings, Jozef - 2022
Using new data on currency invoicing for Belgian firms, we analyze how firms make their currency choice, for both exports and imports, and the implications of this choice for exchange rate pass-through into prices and quantities. We derive our estimating equations from a theoretical framework...
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International Evidence on Shock-Dependent Exchange Rate Pass-Through
Forbes, Kristin J.; Hjortsoe, Ida; Nenova, Tsvetelina - 2022
We analyse the economic conditions (the “shocks”) behind currency movements and show how that analysis can help address a range of questions, focusing on exchange rate pass-through to prices. We build on a methodology previously developed for the United Kingdom and adapt this framework so...
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