Exchange Rate Fluctuations, Pass-Through, and Market Share

Exchange Rate Fluctuations, Pass-Through, and Market Share
Author: International Monetary Fund
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 24
Release: 1989-09-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1451961391

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When the exchange rate fluctuates and the market exhibits hysteresis, planning horizons of domestic and foreign competitors will matter in determining pass-through as well as relative market shares of these firms. Using the Cournot duopoly model, it is shown that if the foreign exporter is a long-term maximizer relative to the domestic firm, pass-through will be lower and average export penetration higher than otherwise.

Exchange Rate Fluctuations, Pass-Through, and Market Share

Exchange Rate Fluctuations, Pass-Through, and Market Share
Author: Kenichi Ohno
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2006
Genre:
ISBN:

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When the exchange rate fluctuates and the market exhibits hysteresis, planning horizons of domestic and foreign competitors will matter in determining pass-through as well as relative market shares of these firms. Using the Cournot duopoly model, it is shown that if the foreign exporter is a long-term maximizer relative to the domestic firm, pass-through will be lower and average export penetration higher than otherwise.

Exchange Rate Pass-through when Market Share Matters

Exchange Rate Pass-through when Market Share Matters
Author: Kenneth Froot
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1988
Genre: Economics
ISBN:

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We investigate pricing to market when the exchange rate changes in cases where firms' future demands depend on their current market shares. We show that i) profit maximizing foreign firms may either raise or lower their domestic currency export prices when the domestic exchange rate appreciates temporarily (i.e. the "pass-through" from exchange rate changes to import prices may be perverse); ii) current import prices may be more sensitive to the expected future exchange rate than to the current exchange rate; iii) current import prices fall in response to an increase in uncertainty about the future exchange rate. We present evidence that suggests the behavior of expected future exchange rates may provide a clue to the puzzling behavior of U.S. import prices during the 1980s

Exchange Rate Pass-Through and Dynamic Oligopoly

Exchange Rate Pass-Through and Dynamic Oligopoly
Author: Dominique M. Gross
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 34
Release: 1999-04-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1451846622

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This paper explicitly takes into account the dynamic oligopolistic rivalry among source producers to evaluate the degree of exchange rate pass-through. Using recent time-series techniques for the case of imported automobiles in Switzerland, the results show that prices are strategic complements and that the degree of pass-through is lower in the long run than in the short run. We attribute this to the fact that, although some rivals match long-term price changes, others do not, inducing the producer who faces a change in exchange rate to absorb a greater proportion of the variation.

Market Structure and Exchange Rate Pass-through

Market Structure and Exchange Rate Pass-through
Author: Raphael Auer
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Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Exchange rate pass-through
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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.

Exchange Rate Volatility, Pricing to Market and Trade Smoothing

Exchange Rate Volatility, Pricing to Market and Trade Smoothing
Author: Mr.Peter B. Clark
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1997-10-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1451936621

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This paper investigates the consequences of exchange rate volatility on the variability of export prices and quantities in the presence of market segmentation and pricing to market. Firms stabilize destination prices through systematic price discrimination, limiting the degree of exchange rate pass-through. Consequently, the variability of exchange rates is not fully translated into prices and quantities at the point of destination. Empirical estimates using aggregate price data for the G-7 industrial countries show incomplete pass-through in variances, with considerable variation among these countries. U.S. industry specific data also indicate incomplete pass-through in most cases, with considerable variation across industries.

Three Essays on Market Structure, Competition, and Pass-Through of Exchange-Rates and Tariff-Rates in a Multi-Country Framework

Three Essays on Market Structure, Competition, and Pass-Through of Exchange-Rates and Tariff-Rates in a Multi-Country Framework
Author: Yahia Abuhashem
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2019
Genre: Competition
ISBN: 9781392063101

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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.

An Empirical Assessment of the Exchange Rate Pass-through in Mozambique

An Empirical Assessment of the Exchange Rate Pass-through in Mozambique
Author: International Monetary Fund
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2021-05-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1513573691

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Determining the magnitude and speed of the exchange rate passthrough (ERPT) to inflation has been of paramount importance for policy-makers in developed and emerging economies. This paper estimates the exchange rate passthrough in Mozambique using econometric techniques on a sample spanning from 2001 to 2019. Results suggest that the ERPT is assymetric, sizable and fast, with 50 percent of the exchange rate variations passing through to prices in less than six months. Policy-makers should continue to pursue low and stable inflation and develop a strong track record of prudent macroeconomic policies for the ERPT to decline.