Comparative Advantage, Exchange Rates, and G-7 Sectoral Trade Balances /

This paper uses a Ricardian framework to clarify the role of microeconomic and macroeconomic factors governing the time series and cross-section behavior of sectoral trade balances. Unit labor costs and trade balances are calculated for several sectors for the seven major industrial countries. The t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Golub, Stephen
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1994.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1994/005
Online Access:Full text available on IMF