2022
DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12483
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A note on the correspondence between horizontal and vertical price transmission

Abstract: Horizontal (vertical) elasticities of price transmission in a competitive market can be positive or negative in sign depending on whether observed changes in market prices are triggered by shifts in the supply or demand for the commodity or by changes in trade (marketing) costs. These facts suggest estimates of horizontal (vertical) elasticities of price transmission obtained from empirical models that exclude trade (marketing) costs will suffer from attenuation bias. The attenuation bias is apt to cause infer… Show more

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“…Over the 18‐year period that we analyse, important components of trade costs in China have changed, with fuel prices, for example, increasing by 100% and then falling by 30% over our sample period. Since we do not include any measures of trade costs, our first‐step price transmission estimates are likely biased downwards ( as explained by Kinnucan, 2022— Ed .). However, the extent of this bias will depend on the strength of the covariance between prices and trade costs, and in our setting the problem would appear to be relatively limited, as the majority of our price transmission estimates range between 0.85 and 1, and none are smaller than 0.7 (see Figure 1).…”
Section: Conclusion and Suggestions For Future Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Over the 18‐year period that we analyse, important components of trade costs in China have changed, with fuel prices, for example, increasing by 100% and then falling by 30% over our sample period. Since we do not include any measures of trade costs, our first‐step price transmission estimates are likely biased downwards ( as explained by Kinnucan, 2022— Ed .). However, the extent of this bias will depend on the strength of the covariance between prices and trade costs, and in our setting the problem would appear to be relatively limited, as the majority of our price transmission estimates range between 0.85 and 1, and none are smaller than 0.7 (see Figure 1).…”
Section: Conclusion and Suggestions For Future Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%