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Pass-Through of Competitors'Exchange Rates to Us Import and Producer Prices
Pennings, Steven Michael - 2017
aggregation model is able to explain a sizable proportion of pass-through of competitors' exchange rates to import prices, and …
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A Vulnerability Approach to the Definition of the Middle Class
López-Calva, Luis Felipe - 2017
vulnerability to poverty. Following this approach the paper exploits panel data to determine the amount of comparable income …
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Exchange Rate and Inflation Dynamics in Zambia
Roger, Lionel - 2019
This paper investigates the dynamics between the exchange rate and consumer price inflation in Zambia. The analysis uses a structural vector autoregression, with quarterly data for 1995-2014 and a combination of short-run sign- and zero-restrictions to identify relevant global and domestic...
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Inflation and Exchange Rate Pass-Through
Ha, Jongrim - 2019
The degree to which domestic prices adjust to exchange rate movements is key to understanding inflation dynamics, and hence to guiding monetary policy. However, the exchange rate pass-through to inflation varies considerably across countries and over time. By estimating structural...
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The Welfare Effects of a Large Depreciation : The Case of Egypt, 2000-05
Kraay, Aart - 2016
The Egyptian pound depreciated sharply between 2000 and 2005, declining by 26 percent in nominal trade-weighted terms. The author investigates the effect of the large depreciation on household welfare operating through exchange rate-induced changes in consumer prices. He estimates exchange rate...
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Antidumping, Retaliation Threats, and Export Prices
Avsar, Veysel - 2017
Utilizing four-dimensional (firm-product-destination-year) Brazilian firm-level export data, the paper shows that antidumping (AD) duties result in a significant and dramatic increase in the unit values of the products that firms export to duty-imposing countries. Furthermore, it examines the...
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Determinants of Tanzanian Export Prices
Rollo, Valentina - 2017
. This paper uses firm-level data to study the pricing-behavior of Tanzanian exporters. The important question of how exporting firms make pricing decisions has not received significant attention in the trade literature, which is more focused on factors that determine export flows. The results...
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World Food Prices and Human Development : Policy Simulations for Archetype Low-Income Countries
Lofgren, Hans - 2017
macro and MDG indicators of a food export (import) price increase depend on the initial gross domestic product share for … for policy responses to higher import prices is stronger for the net food importer. An untargeted food subsidy, financed … contrast, aid-financed food subsidies neutralize the negative impact of higher import prices whereas financing via domestic …
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The Relative Volatility of Commodity Prices : A Reappraisal
Arezki, Rabah - 2017
This paper studies the volatility of commodity prices on the basis of a large dataset of monthly prices observed in international trade data from the United States over the period 2002 to 2011. The conventional wisdom in academia and policy circles is that primary commodity prices are more...
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Decomposing the Great Trade Collapse : Products, Prices, and Quantities in the 2008-2009 Crisis
Haddad, Mona - 2017
The authors identifies a new set of stylized facts on the 2008-2009 trade collapse that they hope can be used to shed light on the importance of demand and supply-side factors in explaining the fall in trade. In particular, they decompose the fall in international trade into product entry and...
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