Arbeitspapier
Unequal Expenditure Switching: Evidence from Switzerland
What are the unequal effects of changes in consumer prices on the cost of living? In the context of changes in import prices (driven by, e.g., changes in trade costs or exchange rates), most analyses focus on variation across households in initial expenditure shares on imported goods. However, the unequal welfare effects of non-marginal foreign price changes also depend on differences in how consumers substitute between imported and domestic goods, on which there is scant evidence. Using data from Switzerland surrounding the 2015 appreciation of the Swiss franc, we provide evidence that lower-income households have higher price elasticities. We quantify the contribution of heterogeneous elasticities for the unequal welfare effects of observed price changes between 2014–15 and for counterfactual shocks to the mean and dispersion of import price changes.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 10810
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles: General (includes Measurement and Data)
Trade: General
Open Economy Macroeconomics
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Auer, Raphael
Burstein, Ariel
Lein, Sarah
Vogel, Jonathan
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
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Munich
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2023
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Auer, Raphael
- Burstein, Ariel
- Lein, Sarah
- Vogel, Jonathan
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2023
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