International prices and exchange rate: the brazilian case / Preços internacionais e taxa de câmbio: o caso brasileiro

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2006

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This work analyzes to Brazil one of the most important debates on the New Open Economy Macroeconomic literature: the choice of the currency in which international prices are fixed. There are two possible hypotheses: either the export firm establishes his prices in your own currency, named producer currency pricing (PCP) or the export firm fix his price in the currency of the market in which his products is sold, named local currency pricing (LCP). Many questions treated in macroeconomic literature have microeconomic foundations. So we look for answering the question using the literature of passthrough and pricing-to-market. In addition to this, we assume that macroeconomic data for Brazilian’s export and import sectors are generated of profit maximizing firms’ behavior. The firms sell their products to local importers, allowing that some piece of exchange rate variations are passed through prices and another piece are passed through specific markup sector. Methodology employed here includes vector error correction (VEC) estimation, one for export prices in dollar and other for import prices in reais, through which were calculated impulse response functions and forecast variance error decompositions for prices. Results point the validity of intermediate cases of LCP and PCP for Brazil. While Brazilian export prices in dollars are closer to LCP hypothesis, Brazilian import prices in reais are closer to PCP hypothesis. Other interesting aspects were obtained. For Brazilian export prices, the most important variable explaining it is the world economic growth. The second most important variable is the export sector cost. For Brazilian import prices in reais, both domestic economic growth and exchange rate are important in its determination, while import prices in dollars were not showed significant in the long run, but just in the short run.

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exportação importação brasil exports taxa de câmbio exchange rate price preço imports brazil

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