Exchange Rate Pass-Through in the Euro Area: The Role of Asymmetric Pricing Behavior

January 1, 2004

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Hamid Faruqee. Exchange Rate Pass-Through in the Euro Area: The Role of Asymmetric Pricing Behavior, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2004) accessed December 21, 2024

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Summary

Exchange rate pass-through in a set of euro area prices along the pricing chain is examined. Using a vector autoregression (VAR) approach, the empirics analyze the joint time-series behavior of the euro exchange rate and a system of euro-area prices in response to an exchange rate shock. The impulse-response functions from the VAR estimates are used to identify-in a 'new open economy macroeconomics model'-those key behavioral parameters that best replicate the pattern of exchange rate pass-through in the euro area. Area-wide prices are found to display incomplete pass-through, consistent with euro currency-pricing and pricing-to-market behavior. The results are compared to those for the other major industrial economies, and suggest that, as with the United States, "expenditure-switching" effects on the current account still operate but are generally small.

Subject: Currencies, Econometric analysis, Exchange rates, Export prices, Foreign exchange, Import prices, Money, Prices, Vector autoregression

Keywords: Area price, Currencies, Destination price, Euro, Euro area firm, Exchange rate, Exchange Rate Pass-Through, Exchange rate shock, Exchange rates, Export prices, Factor price, Global, Import prices, Incomplete pass-through, New Open Economy Macroeconomic Models, Pass-through, Pass-through effect, Pass-through elasticity, Pass-through model, Pass-through rate, Price, Price response, Trade price, Vector autoregression, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

27
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Series:

Working Paper No. 2004/014
Stock No:

WPIEA0142004
ISBN:

9781451843156
ISSN:

1018-5941

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