Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Swedish Import Prices

No 123, Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance from Stockholm School of Economics

Abstract: Swedish import price determination is investigated using disaggregated monthly data from 1980:1 to 1995:05 for eight different industries. The cointegration analysis indicates two cointegrating relations, in all industries, between import prices, the exchange rate, world market prices and domestic prices. Two- equations systems involve an unclear definition of long-run exchange rate pass-through. Pass-through is defined as the total effect a nominal exchange-rate change has on the import price. The estimate thus includes the direct effect on import prices as well as the effect working through home market prices. Total pass-through estimates indicate a limited pass-through and thus pricing to market behaviour in the majority of industries. The estimates range from 27% to 160%. Tests of linear restrictions on the cointegrating vectors indicate a complete long-run pass-through in most industries. Short-run pass-through is limited to about 25%.

Keywords: Pricing to market; pass-through; exchange rates; import prices; cointegration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F31 F41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: Written 1996-09
View citations in EconPapers

Published in Finnish Economic Papers, 1997, pages 81-98.

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance from Stockholm School of Economics
Address: The Economic Research Institute, Stockholm School of Economics, P.O. Box 6501, 113 83 Stockholm, Sweden
Contact information at EDIRC.
Series data maintained by Helena Lundin ().