Nonlinear state and shock dependence of exchange rate pass through on prices

Hernan Rincon-Castro and Norberto Rodríguez-Niño
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Norberto Rodríguez ()

No 690, BIS Working Papers from Bank for International Settlements

Abstract: This paper examines the nature of the pass-through of exchange rate shocks on prices along the distribution chain, and estimates its short and long-term path. It uses monthly data from a small open economy and a smooth transition auto-regressive vector model estimated by Bayesian methods. The main finding is that exchange rate pass-through is nonlinear and state and shock dependent. There are two main policy implications of these findings. First, models used by central banks for policymaking should take into account the nonlinear and endogenous nature of the pass-through. Second, a specific rule on pass-through for monetary policy decisions should be avoided.

Keywords: exchange rate pass-through to prices; pricing along the distribution chain; statedependent; shock-dependent; LST-VAR; Bayesian estimation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C51 C52 E31 E52 F31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 55 pages
Date: 2018-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cba, nep-mac, nep-mon and nep-ore
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