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Three Essays On Exchange Rate Models And Their Applications, Azza A. Mansour
Three Essays On Exchange Rate Models And Their Applications, Azza A. Mansour
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Chapter 1: This chapter attempts to identify the determinant of exchange rate pass-through into producer and destination prices using highly disaggregated firm-level data of importers and exporters of the Egyptian economy from 2009 to 2013. The main findings assert the hypothesis of complete exchange rate pass-through into destination prices at the lowest level of significance for the average exporting firm that is also importing. Furthermore, the firm with the highest import intensity has a lower percentage of pass-through into destination prices, indicating that the marginal cost channel plays a more significant role in determining the speed of the exchange rate …
Essays On Market Structure, Price-Setting, And Spillovers, Nicholas J. Bauer
Essays On Market Structure, Price-Setting, And Spillovers, Nicholas J. Bauer
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Chapter 01: This paper explores the firm’s pricing-setting behavior through the lens of market structure and exchange rate pass-through. The basis for this chapter stems from a four-tiered nested constant elasticity of substitution demand function, where firms have non-negligible sector and subsector market shares. This model allows the firm to compete against firms within the same subsector, as well as against firms within other subsectors. From this model, I identify three propositions. First, a u-shaped price response in both sector and subsector market shares to an exchange rate movement. Second, a hump-shaped price response in subsector market share and a …