Regional Patterns in the Law of One Price: The Roles of Geography vs. Currencies

Charles Engel and John Rogers

No 5395, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We find evidence that the law of one price (LOOP) holds more nearly for country pairs that are within geographic regions than for country pairs that are not. These findings are established using disaggregated consumer price data from 23 countries (including data from eight North American cities). We find that failures of LOOP are closely related to nominal exchange rate variability, suggesting a link to sticky nominal prices. We also find that distance can explain failures of LOOP, suggesting the failures arise from imperfect market integration. However, these two sources do not explain all of the failure of LOOP. We speculate that integrated marketing and distribution systems within regions cause LOOP to hold more nearly intraregionally. We present a formal model of marketing and distribution to illustrate this hypothesis.

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Date: 1995-12
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Published as Frankel, Jeffrey A. (ed.) Regionalization of the World Economy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Published as Regional Patterns in the Law of One Price: The Roles of Geography versus Currencies , Charles Engel, John Rogers. in The Regionalization of the World Economy , Frankel. 1998

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