Pricing to Market and the Real Exchange Rate

January 1, 1995

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Hamid Faruqee. Pricing to Market and the Real Exchange Rate, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1995) accessed September 19, 2024

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Summary

This paper investigates the consequences of pricing to market for exchange rate pass-through and real exchange rate dynamics across different patterns of trade under market segmentation. Under two-way, intraindustry trade--where home prices display greater linkage with those of foreign competitors--domestic and export prices exhibit lower pass-through and greater destination-specific adjustment compared to intersectoral trade. With both trade patterns, pricing-to-market behavior intensifies the degree of persistence in the real exchange rate under nominal rigidities, and allows monetary shocks to have permanent effects on relative prices when goods markets remain segmented.

Subject: Currencies, Exchange rates, Export prices, Foreign exchange, International trade, Money, Prices, Real exchange rates, Trade balance

Keywords: Adjustment cost, Currencies, Destination price, Exchange rates, Export prices, Foreign currency, Goods price, Home price-setter, Home-currency price, Market segmentation, Nominal exchange rate, Price differential, Price inertia, Price linkage, Price rule, Real exchange rates, Relative-price effect, Trade balance, Unit of account, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

34
Volume:

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DOI:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 1995/012
Stock No:

WPIEA0121995
ISBN:

9781451842845
ISSN:

1018-5941

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