Exchange rate pass-through and volatility: Impacts on domestic prices in four Asian countries

Siok Kun Sek () and Zhanna Kapsalyamova

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Abstract: The paper undertakes a comparative empirical analysis on the effects of shocks on domestic prices in four Asian countries before and after the financial crisis of 1997. We apply two different estimation methodologies, namely a structural VAR and a single equation approach. The results of the two methods are consistent, although the magnitude of the elasticities of the exchange rate pass-through are different due to the inclusion of different variables, lag terms and different assumptions made in both methods. The results show that the degrees of the exchange rate pass-through are different across countries and over time. In most cases, the pass-through rates are incomplete. The degree of the exchange rate pass-through is the highest on import prices, moderate on PPI and is the lowest on CPI. In some cases, the pass-through rates on CPI are even negative. The effect of the import price shock is stronger as compared to that of the exchange rate shock in determining the movement of the domestic prices in these countries. Trade openness has a weak correlation with the degree of the exchange rate pass-through.

Keywords: domestic prices; exchange rate pass-through; SVAR; single equation approach (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 C32 F41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-08-01, Revised 2008-10-26
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