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Pricing-to-market tests in instrumental regressions: Case of the transportation equipment industry

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  • Lynda Khalaf
  • Maral Kichian

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Pricing-to-market (PTM) theory suggests that exporting monopolistic firms adjust their destination-specific mark-ups in the face of exchange rate shocks. A large proportion of the existing evidence for PTM comes from Wald tests applied to OLS- and IV-estimated parameters of single-equation models. Such tests can seriously over-reject in the presence of endogeneity and weak instruments so that some of the available results supporting PTM could be spurious. In this paper we revisit the PTM evidence for Japanese and German exporting firms in the transportation equipment industry. Using the model of Marston (1990), we apply exogeneity and LR-LIML-based tests for which the error probability is controlled irrespective of the quality of the available instruments. Our results show right-hand-side endogeneity in almost all of the examined PTM equations. In addition, we find that statistical decisions often differ depending on whether they are based on the traditional Wald test or on our proposed test. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2004

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  • Lynda Khalaf & Maral Kichian, 2004. "Pricing-to-market tests in instrumental regressions: Case of the transportation equipment industry," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 29(2), pages 293-309, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:empeco:v:29:y:2004:i:2:p:293-309
    DOI: 10.1007/s00181-003-0168-2
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    1. Dufour, Jean-Marie & Khalaf, Lynda & Kichian, Maral, 2006. "Inflation dynamics and the New Keynesian Phillips Curve: An identification robust econometric analysis," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 30(9-10), pages 1707-1727.
    2. Khalaf, Lynda & Kichian, Maral, 2005. "Exact tests of the stability of the Phillips curve: the Canadian case," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 49(2), pages 445-460, April.

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