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What can online prices teach us about exchange rate pass-through
and the law of one price? Roberto Rigobon
MIT, CNStat, NBER
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What have we learned?
• Aggregate indexes• Small responses and slow
• Micro Data• Heterogeneous responses• PT conditional on tradability• PT tends to be non-linear• PT conditional on the currency of denomination• PT conditional on the exchange rate regime• PT at product introduction: mixed evidence
• Marketing aspects largely ignored!• Quantum Prices
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Currency of Denomination and Exchange Rate Regime
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Pass-Through: Polled Data
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Index for items invoiced in foreign currency
Index for all items
Index for items invoiced in dollars
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Pass-Through: By Country
Notice the similarities across countries conditional on currency of invoicing
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Real Exchange Rate at good-level
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Relative Prices
Price: 49.90Product: 4081762
Price: 29.99Product: 4081762
49.9029.99
=1.664
Price: 49.99Product: 70136
Price: 29.99Product: 70136
49.9929.99
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Decomposing Pass-Through
• Construct real exchange rates at narrowly defined categories
• How much is due to identical items?• How much is due to extensive margin?
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PPP decomposition
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Quantum PricesDiego Aparicio
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Quantum Prices
• Adds a new dimension of stickiness• Price Choice set is sparse• Quantum Prices are separated by large – economically meaningful – distances
• Stores use very few prices• Uniqlo – 4k items distributed in less than 20 prices• McDonald’s – 25 sandwiches in 20 prices
• Macro implications:• Affects representativeness of micro data and construction of indexes• Potential spurious heterogeneity of micro data
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What do this products have in common?
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Not only one store…
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Massive Price Clustering
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Inflation Dynamics
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Implications
• What is the subsample that is actually representative of the population’s behavior?• How many items are needed to construct an index?• How representative each firm is?
• How is the product designed affected by the pricing strategy?• If products are design to match price points characteristics of the consumers,
pass-through is not detected at the micro level data, but it is at the properly constructed aggregate index.
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Quantum Prices and Sub-sample problem
• Indexing needs large subsample in the category to compute accurate inflation rate. • Assume quantums separated by 30% (smaller than usual).• Assume the category has 1000 items all equally weighted. • Assume the aggregate inflation when all items are taken into consideration is
3 percent a year• A random sub-set of the identical items are the ones that increase their prices• Assume we subsample the population
• Question: How large has to be the subsample so the micro data is representative of the aggregate behavior?
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Distribution of Inflations
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Distribution of Inflations
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Distribution of Inflations
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Distribution of Inflations
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Distribution of Inflations
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Distribution of Inflations
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Distribution of Inflations
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Simulations of the mis-measurements
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Mismeasurement due to Quantum Prices
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Aggregate Noise due to Quantum Prices
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Product Introductions: Extreme degree of stickiness
Price Advertisers change prices using the existing price distribution
New products are designed for specific price points. It means that the hedonic adjustment is the only procedure capable of capturing the price adjustment at introductions
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Conclusions
• Quantum Prices• Aggregate indexes mis-measure actual behavior• Micro data –if subsampled– provides no solution
• Data is non-representative• Heterogeneity could be spurious
• Price adjustment at introduction
• Further Research• How prevalent are quantum prices?