皇冠体育app Impacts of Exchange Rate Movements on Prices and Trade across Sectors: Evidence from Ethiopian Firms

This paper examine how exchange rate movements impact on prices and firm behaviour in Ethiopia from 2006 to 2014

From:
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Published
2 March 2017
Country:
Ethiopia
Document Type:
Research Paper
皇冠体育appme:
Economic Growth
First published:
1 February 2017
Authors:
Mengistu, A.T., Montero, E and Segura, A

Abstract

Movements of the Ethiopian Birr against the US dollar, the major currency of trade invoicing, matter more for prices and trade volumes than do movements of the Birr against trading partners鈥� currencies. US dollar prices and trade volumes change much more for manufacturing firms than for firms in other sectors in the wake of Birr movements against the US Dollar

This research was funded under the Private Enterprise Development in Low Income Countries (PEDL) Programme

Citation

Mengistu, A. T.; Montero, E.; Segura, A. 皇冠体育app Impacts of Exchange Rate Movements on Prices and Trade across Sectors: Evidence from Ethiopian Firms鈥�, PEDL Research Note (2017) 3p

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