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A reappraisal of the border effect on relative price volatility

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dc.creator Cheung, Yin-Wong
dc.creator Lai, Kon-Sun
dc.date 2006
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:02:54Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:02:54Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19104
dc.identifier ppn:510009719
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/19104
dc.description Engel and Rogers (1996) find that crossing the US-Canada border can considerably raise relative price volatility and that exchange rate fluctuations explain about one-third of the volatility increase. In re-evaluating the border effect, this study shows that cross-country heterogeneity in price volatility can lead to significant bias in measuring the border effect unless proper adjustment is made to correct it. The analysis explores the implication of symmetric sampling for border effect estimation. Moreover, using a direct decomposition method, two conditions governing the strength of the border effect are identified. In particular, the more dissimilar the price shocks are across countries, the greater the border effect will be. Decomposition estimates also suggest that exchange rate fluctuations actually account for a large majority of the border effect.
dc.language eng
dc.relation CESifo working papers 1640
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject F31
dc.subject F41
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject price volatility
dc.subject exchange rate volatility
dc.subject national border
dc.subject distance
dc.subject dissimilar shocks
dc.subject Relativer Preis
dc.subject Regionale Preisstruktur
dc.subject Volatilität
dc.subject Grenzgebiet
dc.subject Wechselkurs
dc.subject Schätzung
dc.subject USA
dc.subject Kanada
dc.title A reappraisal of the border effect on relative price volatility
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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