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Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Domestic Prices: Does the Inflationary Environment Matter?

By Dalia S Hakura, Ehsan U. Choudhri

December 1, 2001

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Dalia S Hakura, and Ehsan U. Choudhri Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Domestic Prices: Does the Inflationary Environment Matter?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2001) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

The paper tests a hypothesis suggested by Taylor (2000) 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.

Subject: Consumer price indexes, Exchange rate adjustments, Exchange rate pass-through, Exchange rates, Foreign exchange, Inflation, Prices

Keywords: Africa, Consumer price indexes, CPI pass-through, Exchange rate, Exchange rate adjustments, Exchange rate pass-through, Exchange rates, Import price pass-through, Inflation, Inflation rate, Inflation regime, Pass-through, Pass-through estimate, Pass-through measure, Pass-through relation, Period pass-through, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    36

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2001/194

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA1942001

  • ISBN:

    9781451859867

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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