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Publisher: Journals Gateway
The Review of Economics and Statistics 1–45.
Published: 16 September 2024
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Economists have long suspected that firm-to-firm relationships might lower the responsiveness of prices to shocks due to the use of fixed-price contracts. Using transaction-level U.S. import data, I show that the pass-through of exchange rate shocks in fact rises as a relationship ages. Based on novel stylized facts about a relationship's life cycle, I develop a model of relationship dynamics in which a buyerseller pair accumulates relationship capital to lower production costs under limited commitment. The structurally estimated model generates countercyclical mark-ups and countercyclical pass-through of shocks through variation in the economy's rate of relationship creation, which falls in recessions.
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