DETERMINANTES DO REPASSE CAMBIAL: UMA RESENHA COM FOCO NO CASO BRASILEIRO [DETERMINANTS OF THE EXCHANGE RATE PASSTHROUGH: A SURVEY OF THE BRAZILIAN CASE]
Keywords:
repasse cambial, ambiente inflacionário, heterogeneidade setorial no repasse cambial, assimetria no repasse cambial, hierarquia de moedasAbstract
A taxa de câmbio constitui um dos principais preços da economia. Suas flutuações têm importantes impactos sobre os preços domésticos, portanto, sobre a condução e credibilidade da política monetária. Este artigo apresenta uma ampla resenha da literatura sobre o repasse cambial, e nesse sentido contribui para organizar o debate sobre o tema, que é de especial interesse para se entender o processo inflacionário brasileiro. Um aspecto a ser destacado é que identificamos que o repasse cambial pode variar entre grupos de países devido à existência de uma hierarquia do sistema monetário internacional, fato que não é tratado explicitamente na literatura sobre repasse cambial. O artigo inclui também trabalhos empíricos sobre repasse cambial no Brasil. Conclui que os determinantes macro e microeconômicos do repasse cambial fazem parte de um todo que precisa ser entendido no nível das firmas para melhor explicar o comportamento agregado dos preços
PALAVRAS-CHAVE: repasse cambial; ambiente inflacionário; heterogeneidade setorial no repasse cambial; assimetria no repasse cambial; hierarquia de moedas
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ABSTRACT: The exchange rate is one of the main prices of the economy. Its fluctuations have important impacts on domestic prices and therefore on the conduct and credibility of monetary policy. This paper presents a broad review of the literature on the exchange rate pass-through and it gives a contribution in the sense to organize the debate on the subject, which is of special interest to the understanding of Brazil’s inflationary process. It has been identified that the phenomenon of exchange rate pass-through may vary among groups of countries as a result of a hierarchy within the international monetary system, a fact that is not explicitly addressed in the specialized literature. The paper also includes empirical studies on exchange rate pass-through in Brazil. It concludes that the macro and microeconomic determinants of exchange rate transfers are part of a whole that needs to be understood at the level of firms to better explain the aggregate behavior of prices.
KEYWORDS: pass-through; inflationary environment; sectorial heterogeneity in the pass-through; pass-through asymmetry; money hierarchy
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