Author: Kanda NaknoiPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Exchange Rate Pass-through and Market Structure in a Multi-country World
Author: Kanda NaknoiThree Essays on Market Structure, Competition, and Pass-Through of Exchange-Rates and Tariff-Rates in a Multi-Country Framework
Author: Yahia AbuhashemPublisher:
ISBN: 9781392063101
Category : Competition
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This dissertation includes three chapters that expand upon the discussion on the role of market structure and competition on the extent of pass-through of exchange-rate and tariff-rate movements in a multi-country world. The first chapter extends Naknoi (2015) model to incorporate the response of import prices to cost shocks related to exogenous movements in tariff-rates as a variable rate across products and trading partners, applied to own and competing exporters' export prices. Empirically, I make the contribution of estimating the "multilateral" own-ERPT and cross-ERPT to import prices in the U.S., accounting for strategic interactions between competing exporters in a sector when estimating the multilateral-ERPT elasticity. Interestingly, the coefficients for the cross exchange-rate and tariff-rate of competing exporters are found to be statistically significant, indicating a strong predictive power of the cross-ERPT and cross-ERPT elasticity when added to the regression. In addition, I estimate the extent of aggregate Pricing-to-Market (PTM) for each of the top 20 exporters to the U.S. from the lens of bilateral and cross ERPT and TRPT. Results continue to further assert the strong predictive power of the cross-ERPT and cross-ERPT on exporters' PTM behaviors. Motivated by Mallik and Marques (2012), the second chapter extends the Auer and Schoenle (2016) model by assuming that tariff-rates, in addition to exchange-rates, identify cost shocks to exporters' marginal costs. Empirically, this chapter attempts to examine whether the use of data on shocks to the exchange-rate and tariff-rate of competing exporters can be used to identify changes in competitor exporters' Local-Currency-Price (LCP), and thus establish Auer & Schoenle (2016) second stylized fact that the rate at which a firm reacts to competitor prices is hump-shaped in market share. I argue that the cross-cost pass-through channel, combining the exogenous shocks to the exchange-rate and tariff- rate of competing exporters is insightfully and conceptually equivalent to the price complementaries channel developed in my extension of Auer and Schoenle (2016). Empirical results suggest that adjusting the bilateral exchange-rate fluctuations of competing exporters to changes in their tariff-rate, the rate at which an exporter reacts to these changes is expected to be a hump-shape in market share. Finally, the third chapter builds upon the theoretical model developed in Bergin and Feenstra (2009), and extends it test how the rise in China's share of imports to the U.S., as well as China's adoption of a more flexible exchange rate regime has affected and possibly altered the competitive environment in the U.S. import market during the last decade, and consequently changed the extent of ERPT. In their theoretical model, Bergin and Feenstra (2009) neglect the power of tariffs in influencing the LCP of imports. Their theoretical approach to modelling LCP's implicitly assumes that tariffs are either non-existent or are similar for all trading partners. The extended theoretical model developed in Chapter 3 differs in its inclusion of tariff-rates as a variable rate across products and trading partners when calculating LCP's of imports. Empirically, results confirm Bergin and Feenstra (2009) prediction that the pass-through to the multilateral exchange-rate would be expected to rise as a result of China adopting a more flexible exchange-rate regime, while continuing to occupy larger market share of U.S. imports.
Market Structure and Exchange Rate Pass-through
Author: Raphael AuerPublisher:
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Category : Exchange rate pass-through
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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We study firm-level pricing behavior through the lens of exchange rate pass-through and provide new evidence on how firm-level market shares and price complementarities affect pass-through decisions. Using micro-data from U.S. import prices, we identify two facts: First, exactly the firms that react the most with their prices to changes in their own costs are also the ones that react the least to changing competitor prices. Second, the response of import Prices to exchange rate changes is U-shaped in market share while it is hump-shaped in response to competitor prices. We show that both facts are consistent with a model based on Dornbusch (1987) that generates variable markups through a nested-CES demand system. Finally, based on the model, we find that direct cost pass-through and price complementarities play approximately equally important roles in determining pass-through but also partly offset each other. This suggests that equilibrium feedback effects in pricing are large. Omission of either channel in an empirical analysis results in a failure to explain how market structure affects price-setting in industry equilibrium.
The Exchange Rate Pass -Through to Import and Export Prices
Author: Ehsan U. ChoudhriPublisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1475510233
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Using both regression- and VAR-based estimates, the paper finds that the exchange rate pass-through to import prices for a large number of countries is incomplete and larger than the pass-through to export prices. Previous studies have reported similar results, which give rise to the puzzle that while local currency pricing is needed to account for incomplete import price pass-through, it would not imply a lower export price pass-through. Recent explanations of this puzzle have emphasized markup adjustment in response to exchange rate changes. This paper suggests an alternative explanation based on the presence of both producer and local currency pricing. Using a dynamic general equilibrium model, the paper shows that a mix of producer and local currency pricing can explain the pass-through evidence even with a constant markup. The model can also explain the observed exchange rate and inflation variability as well as the fact that the regression and VAR estimates tend to be similar.
Exchange Rate Pass-through and Market Structure
Author: A. P. KirmanPublisher:
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Category : Foreign exchange
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Investment, Pass-through and Exchange Rates
Author: José CampaPublisher:
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Category : Foreign exchange rates
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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The Impact of Domestic Market Structure on Exchange Rate Pass-through
Author: Ahmed H. MohamedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign exchange
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Exchange rate pass-through and market structure
Author: Alan P. KirmanExchange Rates and Macroeconomic Dynamics
Author: P. KaradeloglouPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230582699
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
This book looks at the PPP persistence puzzle, and econometric aspects of exchange rate dynamics and their implications. It also explores the importance of exchange rate dynamics in the pass-through effects (PTE) and the econometric aspects of the exchange rates dynamics linked to structural shocks on different economies.
Author: Inĩgo Herguera