Exchange Rate Pass-through and Industry Characteristics: The Case of Taiwan's Exports of Midstream Petrochemical Products

Kuo-Liang Wang and Chung-Shu Wu

No 5749, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Based on 1986-1992 survey data of 22 midstream petrochemical industries in Taiwan, the empirical results of the export price, the markup ratio and the price-cost margin equations in this study show that Taiwan's petrochemical firms absorb only a small portion of a given weighted exchange rate change in their export prices, markup ratios and price-cost margins. It implies that Taiwan's petrochemical firms have a weak pricing-to-market pattern. The empirical results may be explained by the volatility of profitability, high market concentration and small export/domestic production share. However, the impacts of the exchange rate change on the export price, markup ratio and price-cost margin have a tendency to increase during the period of 1987" to 1992. The tendency might be attributed to increasing competition of the petrochemical markets in the world, or Taiwanese firms' gradual realization of the importance of holding their world market shares in response to the exchange rate change.

JEL-codes: F31 L1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996-09
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Published as Changes in Exchange Rates in Rapidly Developing Countries. Ito,Takatoshiand Anne O. Krueger, eds., Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999,pp. 211-230.
Published as Exchange Rate Pass-through and Industry Characteristics: The Case of Taiwan's Exports of Midstream Petrochemical Products , Kuo-Liang Wang, Chung-Shu Wu. in Changes in Exchange Rates in Rapidly Developing Countries: Theory, Practice, and Policy Issues , Ito and Krueger. 1999

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