Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/55315 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3723
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We examine the effects that a country's net capital flows have on the (border) prices that a country pays for its imports of goods. Using data from 2000 to 2009 for 11 euro area countries we utilize a pricing-to-market specification to study exporters' pricing behavior to the rest of the countries in the sample, at the industry level, for 900 goods disseminated at the 4- digit Standard International Trade Classification (SITC- revision 3) level. This allows us to construct a panel dataset which contains observations across exporters, importers, industries and time, ending up with a total of 594,327 observations. We find a strong influence of the importing country's net capital inflows on the border prices of its imports of goods. This result is robust across different specifications of the underlying model, as well to different sample disaggregations across types of capital flows, product categories, and exporters.
Subjects: 
capital flows
import prices
pricing to market
globalization
euro area
JEL: 
F32
F34
F36
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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