Exchange rate exposure for exporting and domestic firms in central and Eastern Europe

Abstract We analyze the exchange rate exposure of firms in Russia and European Union (EU) accession countries from Central and Eastern Europe: Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. We control for potential effects of exchange rate regimes, the subprime mortgage and Russian financial crisis, EU accession, and the turn-of-the-year effect. We find significant exposure for 60% and 52% of firms in the CEEC-3 and Russia, respectively. Magnitude and direction of firms' exposure depends on the currency pair (versus either the euro or U.S. dollar) and differs between CEEC-3 and Russia. Differences may result from dissimilar exposure channels in the respective economies.