Distribution Costs and Real Exchange Rate Dynamics During Exchange-Rate-Based-Stabilizations

Ariel Tomas Burstein, Joao C. Neves and Sergio Rebelo ()

No 7862, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper studies the role played by the distribution sector in shaping the behavior of the real exchange rate during exchange-rate-based-stabilizations. We use data for the U.S. and Argentina to document the importance of distribution margins in retail prices and disaggregated price data to study price dynamics in the aftermath of Argentina's 1991 Convertibility plan. Distribution services require local labor and land so they drive a natural wedge between retail prices in different countries. We study in detail the impact of introducing a distribution sector in an otherwise standard model of exchange-rate-based-stabilizations. We show that this simple extension improves dramatically the ability of the model to rationalize observed real exchange rate dynamics.

JEL-codes: F41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000-08
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