Pass-Through of Competitors' Exchange Rates to U.S. Import and Producer Prices

This paper shows that in theory and BLS microdata, the prices of imported goods respond to the exchange rates (ER) of the producer's foreign competitors. In contrast, standard models have no role for competitors' ERs. Excluding the effects of competitors' exchange rates typically bias...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pennings, Steven
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29188