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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 F. - 2017

vulnerability to poverty. Following this approach the paper exploits panel data to determine the amount of comparable income …

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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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Sugar Prices, Labour Income and Poverty in Brazil

Krivonos, Ekaterina - 2006

This paper assesses the impact that a potential liberalization of sugar regimes in OECD countries could have on household labor income and poverty in Brazil. The authors first estimate the extent of price transmission from world markets to 11 Brazilian states to capture the fact that some local...

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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

Löfgren, 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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How Vulnerable are Arab Countries to Global Food Price Shocks?

Ianchovichina, Elena - 2017

This paper presents new estimates of pass-through coefficients from international to domestic food prices by country in the Middle East and North Africa. The estimates indicate that, despite the use of food price subsidies and other government interventions, a rise in global food prices is...

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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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African Cotton Markets at Crossroads : Will the Price Spike Turn into a New Kick-Start?

Delpeuch, Claire - 2017

After years of diplomatic efforts and legal procedures to obtain the elimination of rich countries' cotton subsidies, policy prospects for African cotton producers remain bleak. However, the world price for cotton has doubled in a year and has hit an all-time high. This paper examines these...

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