Deep Habits and Exchange Rate Pass-Through
40 Pages Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Date Written: April 2016
Abstract
Habit persistence at the level of individual goods varieties can explain incomplete exchange rate pass-through to international prices. Deep habits give rise to a dynamic import demand function that leads to import price markup adjustments, independently of nominal pricing frictions. Augmenting a standard New Keynesian two-country model with deep habits, we obtain low exchange rate pass-through to import prices even when local currency prices are relatively flexible. As prices become more rigid, the presence of deep habits further reduces the pass-through of exchange rate fluctuations. Without deep habits, the model requires implausibly high degrees of price stickiness to match the pass-through dynamics triggered by an exchange rate shock in a vector autoregression.
Keywords: Exchange Rate Pass-through, Deep Habits, Sticky Prices, Price Markups, Local Currency Pricing
JEL Classification: F41, E31
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