A new approach to tests of pricing-to-market

B-Tier
Journal: Journal of International Money and Finance
Year: 2013
Volume: 32
Issue: C
Pages: 654-667

Score contribution per author:

0.670 = (α=2.01 / 3 authors) × 1.0x B-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

This study proposes a new approach to tests of pricing-to-market, which defines the responsiveness of export prices to currency movements. Pricing-to-market parameters may be susceptible to time variation, and we account for this in a novel theoretical and empirical contribution to the literature. We extend the benchmark model of pricing-to-market to account for instability in the relationship between export prices and exchange rates. Moreover, using an empirical methodology robust to parameter instability, we examine the forecasting performance of a pricing-to-market model. In doing so we apply a selection of model mis-specification tests robust to varying degrees of parameter evolution to recent aggregate and disaggregate UK export data. Our estimation results provide strong evidence of pricing-to-market and the instability in the response of export prices to exchange rate fluctuations.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:jimfin:v:32:y:2013:i:c:p:654-667
Journal Field
International
Author Count
3
Added to Database
2026-01-25