How wide is the border?

Charles Engel and John Rogers

No 498, International Finance Discussion Papers from Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)

Abstract: Failures of the law of one price explain much of the variation in real C.P.I. exchange rates. We use C.P.I. data for U.S. cities and Canadian cities for 14 categories of consumer prices to examine the nature of the deviations from the law of one price. The distance between cities explains a significant amount of the variation in the prices of similar goods in different cities. But, the variation of the price is much higher for two cities located in different countries than for two equidistant cities in the same country. By our most conservative measure, crossing the border adds as much to the volatility of prices as adding 2500 miles between cities.

Keywords: International trade; Foreign exchange rates; Prices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1995
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