Quality, Trade, and Exchange Rate Pass-Through

March 12, 2014

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Natalie Chen, and Luciana Juvenal. Quality, Trade, and Exchange Rate Pass-Through, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2014) accessed September 20, 2024

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Summary

This paper investigates theoretically and empirically the heterogeneous response of exporters to real exchange rate fluctuations due to product quality. Our model shows that the elasticity of demand perceived by exporters decreases with a real depreciation and with quality, leading to more pricing-to-market and to a smaller response of export volumes to a real depreciation for higher quality goods. We test the proposed theory using a highly disaggregated Argentinean firm-level wine export dataset between 2002 and 2009 combined with experts wine rankings as a measure of quality. The model predictions find strong support in the data and the results are robust to different measures of quality, samples, specifications, and to the potential endogeneity of quality.

Subject: Exchange rate adjustments, Exchange rates, Export prices, Exports, Foreign exchange, International trade, Prices, Real exchange rates

Keywords: Customs data, Europe, Exchage rate pass-through, Exchange rate, Exchange rate adjustments, Exchange rates, Export prices, Export volume, Exports, Exports data, Firms, Global, Pricing-to-market, Quality, Real exchange rates, Standard deviation, Unit value, Unit values, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

58
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Working Paper No. 2014/042
Stock No:

WPIEA2014042
ISBN:

9781475526394
ISSN:

1018-5941

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