Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/123771 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Bank of Canada Working Paper No. 2015-31
Publisher: 
Bank of Canada, Ottawa
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the impact of market structure on the joint determination of exchange rate pass-through and currency of invoicing in international trade. A novel feature of the study is the focus on market share of firms on both sides of the market - that is, exporting firms and importing firms. A model of monopolistic competition with heterogeneous firms has the following set of predictions: a) exchange rate pass-through should be non-monotonic and U-shaped in the market share of exporting firms, but monotonically declining in the market share of importers; b) exchange rate pass-through should be lower, the higher is local currency invoicing of imports; and c) producer currency invoicing should be related non-monotonically and U-shaped to exporter market share, and monotonically declining in importing firms' market share. We test these predictions using a new and large micro data set covering the universe of Canadian imports over a six-year period. The data strongly support all three predictions.
Subjects: 
Exchange rates
Inflation and prices
Market structure and pricing
JEL: 
F3
F4
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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