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Export pricing and exchange rate expectations under uncertainty

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This paper contributes to the literature on firms’ export pricing by assessing whether and to what extent firms take into account the expected future evolution of the exchange rates while setting their prices. Using French micro-level trade data, our empirical analysis reveals that by adjusting their export prices, firms partly absorb information about future exchange rate variations. The extent to which individual exporters absorb future exchange rate fluctuations is found to depend on their market power, in accordance with theoretical dynamic demand-side models encompassing mechanisms creating an inter-temporal relationship between current market shares and future profits. The analysis also shows that the strength of such expectation-related mechanism is considerably reduced with greater future exchange rate uncertainty, in line with an interpretation of pricing-to-market as an investment decision under uncertainty. In a comparative perspective our results are shown to drive asymmetric responses across destinations of aggregate bilateral export flows to expected exchange rate movements.
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halshs-03673148 , version 1 (19-05-2022)

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Andrea Fracasso, Angelo Secchi, Chiara Tomasi. Export pricing and exchange rate expectations under uncertainty. Journal of Comparative Economics, 2022, 50 (1), pp.135-152. ⟨10.1016/j.jce.2021.07.001⟩. ⟨halshs-03673148⟩
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