Pricing-to-Market (PTM) and the International Monetary Policy Transmission: The "New Open-Economy Macroeconomics" Approach

Akira Otani
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Akira Otani: Institute for Monetary & Econ Studies, Bank of Japan

Monetary and Economic Studies, 2002, vol. 20, issue 3, 1-34

Abstract: Empirical analyses of firms' Price-setting behavior show that while the exchange rate pass-through of Japanese firms is low (many Japanese firms adopt pricing-to-market [PTM]), the export prices charged by U.S. firms nearly perfectly reflect foreign exchange rate fluctuations. This paper analyzes how the difference in domestic and foreign firms' price-setting behavior affects the domestic and international transmission of monetary policy by using a model that explicitly incorporates differences in the price-setting behavior of domestic and foreign firms. This model is constructed by adopting the framework of the "hew open-economy macroeconomics" that has been the subject of numerous research papers an recent years. The findings demonstrate that the effects of domestic and foreign monetary policies differ greatly when domestic and foreign firms adopt different price-setting behaviors. This indicates that central banks have to give sufficient attention to firms' price-setting behavior for the implementation of monetary policies. Additionally, model simulations based on Japan and U.S. data show that the external effect of Japanese monetary policy is negligible compared with that of U. S. monetary policy due to the PTM-price-setting behavior of Japanese firms.

JEL-codes: E52 F42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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