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rate. Multiple margins of adjustment (frequency of price changes, direction of price changes, size of price changes, exit … our dataset to show that degree of competition, stickiness of prices, synchronization of price changes, reputation of … sellers, and returns to search effort are important determinants of pass-through and speed of price adjustment for …
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Existing models of contagious currency crises are summarized and surveyed, and it is argued that more weight should be put on political factors. Towards this end, the concept of political contagion introduced, whereby contagion in speculative attacks across currencies arises solely because of...
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It has been widely remarked that US import prices have not fully reflected movements in the exchange rate. This paper begins with an investigation of the actual extent of "pricing to market" by foreign suppliers. It shows that pricing to market is a real phenomenon, but not universal; in...
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We introduce the real exchange rate volatility curve as a useful device to understand the role of price stickiness in … accounting for deviations from the Law of One Price at the sector level. In the presence of both nominal and real shocks, the … theory predicts that the real exchange rate volatility curve is a U-shaped function of the degree of price stickiness. Using …
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integration and price convergence in international markets. Using a panel data set of car prices we examine how the process of … integration has affected cross-country price dispersion in Europe. We find surprisingly strong evidence of convergence towards …
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by the elimination of the exchange rate as a source of shocks, in combination with faster adjustment in national price … relative price adjustment …
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-series data for 21 EU countries from year 1998 to 2007 from various data resources. We provide strong evidence that the price gap … share of ad valorem tax in total excise tax leads to about a 4 to 5 percent increase in the price gap, with a smaller impact …
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In this paper we use high frequency interest rate data for a group of Latin American countries to analyze the behavior of volatility through time. We are particularly interested in understanding whether periods of high volatility spillover across countries. Our analysis relies both on univariate...
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This paper uses firm-level information to evaluate how crises are transmitted internationally. It constructs a new data set of financial statistics, industry information, geographic data, and stock returns for over 10,000 companies in 46 countries to test what types of firms were most affected...
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In this paper I analyze several issues related to contagion,' including its definition, recent experiences, alternative channels at work, and possible prevention mechanisms. The discussion deals with the macroeconomics implications of contagion, and concentrates on the relationship between the...
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