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Border prices of traded goods are highly sensitive to exchange rates; however, the consumer price index (CPI) and the … retail prices of goods that make up the CPI are more stable. This paper decomposes the sources of this price stability for … distribution margins and imported inputs in transmitting exchange rate fluctuations into consumption prices. We provide rich cross …
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competitive general equilibrium where goods prices, technology and factor supplies jointly determine outputs and factor prices. We …, prices, and factor supplies. The model is based on the neoclassical theory of production, and is implemented by assuming that … GDP is a function of prices, technology levels, and supplies of capital and different types of labor. We treat final goods …
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traded-goods prices exhibit significant inertia in the face of shocks such as exchange rate changes. This paper uses a … wholesale prices for UPC (Universal Product Code)-level products. Markup adjustments by manufacturers and the retailer explain …
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In this paper, I provide evidence that currency stop-loss orders contribute to rapid, self-reinforcing price movements, or "price cascades." Stop-loss orders, which instruct a dealer to buy (sell) a certain amount of currency at the market rate once the rate has risen (fallen) to a prespecified...
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exchange rate movements and import prices. Recent debates hinge on whether producer-currency-pricing (PCP) or local currency … into import prices. However, for OECD countries, the most important determinants of changes in pass-through over time are …
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This paper analyzes the dynamics of prices and wages using a limited information approach to estimation. I estimate a … two-equation model for the determination of prices and wages derived from an optimization-based dynamic model in which … both goods and labor markets are monopolistically competitive; prices and wages can be reoptimized only at random intervals …
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three reasons for the change in pass-through into the retail prices of goods. First, pass-through may have declined at the … level of import prices, but the evidence is mixed over types of goods and countries. Second, there has been a large … heightened sensitivity to import prices and exchange rates. Finally, we consider whether there have been changing sectoral …
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We analyze two reasons for export prices to be different across markets--namely, quality differentiation and variable … separately identify the markup and quality components of international relative prices for Chinese artworks. Through this lens …
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prices. We show that an exchange rate depreciation does not necessarily have a beggar-thy-neighbor effect and may in fact …
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We study the purchasing power parity (PPP) puzzle in a multisector, two-country, sticky-price model. Firms' price stickiness differs across sectors, in accordance with recent microeconomic evidence on price setting in various countries. Combined with local currency pricing, these differences...
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