Macroeconomic and Sectoral Effects of Terms-of-Trade Shocks : The Experience of the Oil-Exporting Developing Countries.

This paper investigates the impact of long-run terms-of-trade shocks. Analytically, we show that, if capital goods are largely importable or the labor supply is sufficiently elastic, then natural-resource booms increase aggregate investment and worsen the current account, but Dutch 'Disease...

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Erakunde egilea: International Monetary Fund
Formatua: Aldizkaria
Hizkuntza:English
Argitaratua: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1999.
Saila:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1999/134
Sarrera elektronikoa:Full text available on IMF