Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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964797 | Journal of International Money and Finance | 2006 | 26 Pages |
Abstract
The paper tests a hypothesis suggested by J. Taylor [2000. Low inflation, pass-through, and the pricing power of firms. European Economic Review 44 (7), 1389-1408] that a low inflationary environment leads to a low exchange rate pass-through to domestic prices. To test this hypothesis, the paper derives a pass-through relation based on new open-economy macroeconomic models. A large database that includes 1979-2000 data for 71 countries is used to estimate this relation. There is strong evidence of a positive and significant association between the pass-through and the average inflation rate across countries and periods. The inflation rate, moreover, dominates other macroeconomic variables in explaining cross-regime differences in the pass-through.
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Authors
Ehsan U. Choudhri, Dalia S. Hakura,