Restaurant Prices and the Mexican Peso

Thomas Fullerton () and Roberto Coronado

Southern Economic Journal, 2001, vol. 68, issue 1, 145-155

Abstract: Of prime interest to border economies is exchange rate performance and currency valuation. Commonly used tools for this task include purchasing power parity (PPP) nominal benchmarks, and inflation‐adjusted trade‐weighted indices. The latter have the advantage of relying on commonly available international macroeconomic data but overlook microeeonomic information that may offer additional insight to issues surrounding exchange rate policy debates. Other efforts have utilized small samples of international product price comparisons to shed light on currency valuation questions. This paper develops one such tool by repeated sampling of prices charged for identical menu items sold at restaurant franchises in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. A battery of statistical tests indicate that the international currency value of the peso consistently differed from the exchange rate implied by the border region restaurant price ratios in 1997, 1998, and 1999.

Date: 2001
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