Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/153173 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 739
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
This paper examines the degree of Exchange Rate Pass-Through (ERPT) to prices in 12 emerging markets in Asia, Latin America, and Central and Eastern Europe. Our results, based on three alternative vector autoregressive models, partly overturn the conventional wisdom that ERPT into both import and consumer prices is always higher in “emerging” than in “developed” countries. For emerging markets with only one digit inflation (most notably the Asian countries), passthrough to import and consumer prices is found to be low and not very dissimilar from the levels of developed economies. The paper also finds robust evidence for a positive relationship between the degree of the ERPT and inflation, in line with Taylor’s hypothesis once two outlier countries (Argentina and Turkey) are excluded from the analysis. Finally, the presence of a positive link between import openness and ERPT, while plausible theoretically, finds only weak empirical support.
Subjects: 
emerging markets
Exchange Rate Pass-Through
JEL: 
C32
E31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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