Arbeitspapier

Exchange rates, international trade and growth: Re-evaluation of underevaluation

This paper shows that a regional bias resulting from trade integration alters the transmission of a country's monetary policy by shifting the burden of the exchange rate adjustment towards the less integrated trading partners. I first develop a simple model which illustrates how a concentration of trade flows among regional trading partners affects the sensitivity of the trade balance to the terms-of-trade. In particular, the trade balance becomes less sensitive to the terms-of-trade vis-a-vis regional partners and more sensitive to the terms-of-trade vis-a-vis the other country. I then test the implication of the model using a panel of 133 countries between 1985 - 2010 that includes information on Regional Trade Agreements (RTA). I find that movements in the terms-of-trade vis-a-vis non-RTA members affect a country´s trade balance, while movements vis-a-vis RTA partners do not.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Working Paper ; No. HEIDWP05-2016

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Trade: General
Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
Empirical Studies of Trade
Economic Integration
Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance: General
Open Economy Macroeconomics
Macroeconomic Issues of Monetary Unions
Thema
trade balance
regional trade agreements
competitive depreciation
economic integration
terms-of-trade

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Sokolova, Maria V.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
(wo)
Geneva
(wann)
2016

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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Sokolova, Maria V.
  • Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Entstanden

  • 2016

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