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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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The inertia of traded goods' local currency prices in the face of exchange rate changes is a well-documented phenomenon … the incomplete transmission of exchange rate changes to prices. The approach is applied to micro data from the beer market …. We find that (a) wholesale prices appear more rigid than retail prices; (b) price adjustment costs on average account for …
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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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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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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 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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tolerant. A higher effective bargaining weight of importers relative to exporters in turn translates into lower import prices … and greater exchange rate pass-through into import prices. We show the range of price and invoicing outcomes that arise …
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related evidence on exchange rate pass-through to prices. This paper argues that a depreciation of the dollar would have ….S. import prices and high exchange rate pass-through to the local prices of countries consuming U.S. exports, the effect of … become cheaper in the rest of the world. Real U.S. imports are affected less because U.S. prices are more insulated from …
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A large body of research has established that exporters do not fully adjust their prices across countries in response …
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