• Media type: E-Book; Report
  • Title: Export prices, markups, and currency choice after a large appreciation
  • Contributor: Kaufmann, Daniel [Author]; Renkin, Tobias [Author]
  • imprint: Neuchâtel: University of Neuchâtel, Institute of Economic Research (IRENE), 2019
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: E5 ; E3 ; exchange rate pass through ; F4 ; exchange rate sensitive factor costs ; nominal exchange rate ; currency choice ; price rigidity ; pricing-to-market ; F3 ; variable markups ; border prices
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  • Description: We analyze export price adjustment of Swiss manufacturing firms using a novel data set of matched export, import, and domestic prices. After a large, unexpected, and permanent appreciation of the Swiss franc, export prices set in domestic currency fell less than export prices set in foreign currency. This difference prevails if we control for variation in firms' marginal cost. Through the lens of a structural model, this difference can be traced back to strategic complementarity in price setting for firms pricing in foreign currency. Meanwhile, firms setting prices in domestic currency exhibit no strategic complementarity and follow a constant markup-pricing rule.
  • Access State: Open Access