Arbeitspapier

Beggar-thy-neighbor or beggar-thyself? The income effect of exchange rate fluctuations

This paper analyzes the impact of exchange rate fluctuations when they are only partially passed through to consumer prices. We show that an exchange rate depreciation does not necessarily have a beggar-thy-neighbor effect and may in fact have an opposite, or beggar-thyself, effect. The direction of the welfare effect depends on who owns the firms importing goods from producers and selling them to consumers, an issue that has not been explored in the earlier literature.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Staff Report ; No. 112

Classification
Wirtschaft
Foreign Exchange
Open Economy Macroeconomics
International Policy Coordination and Transmission
Subject
beggar-thy-neighbor, imports distribution
Wechselkurspolitik
Abwertung
Einkommenseffekt
Exchange Rate Pass-Through
Theorie

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Tille, Cédric
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
(where)
New York, NY
(when)
2000

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  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Tille, Cédric
  • Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Time of origin

  • 2000

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