Who bears the cost of a change in the exchange rate?
Subtitle: the case of imported beer
By: Rebecca Hellerstein.
Contributors: Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Series: Staff reports ;; no. 179; Staff reports (Federal Reserve Bank of New York : Online) ;; no. 179.
Publisher: Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Published: 2004
Place of publication: [New York, N.Y.]
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Foreign exchange rates -- Econometric models.; Beer industry -- Case studies.; Imports -- Case studies.
Genres: Case studies.
Description: "This paper quantifies the welfare effects of a change in the nominal exchange rate using the example of the beer market.  I estimate a structural econometric model that makes it possible to compute manufacturers' and retailers' pass-through of a nominal exchange-rate change, without observing wholesale prices or firms' marginal costs.  I conduct counterfactual experiments to quantify how the change affects domestic and foreign firms' profits and domestic consumer welfare.  The counterfactual experiments show that foreign manufacturers bear more of the cost of an exchange-rate change than do domestic consumers, domestic manufacturers, or a domestic retailer.  The model can be applied to other markets and can serve as a tool to assess the welfare effects of various exchange-rate policies"--Federal Reserve Bank of New York web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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