Trade Liberalization, Macroeconomic Adjustment, and Welfare : Unifying Trade and Macro Models /

Trade liberalization leads to long-run gains, but it can also involve costly short-run macroeconomic adjustment. The paper explores the relative importance of these effects within a dynamic general equilibrium model that captures key elements of both international trade and macroeconomic models. The...

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מחבר ראשי: Choudhri, Ehsan
מחברים אחרים: Faruqee, Hamid, Tokarick, Stephen
פורמט: כתב-עת
שפה:English
יצא לאור: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2006.
סדרה:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2006/304
גישה מקוונת:Full text available on IMF
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סיכום:Trade liberalization leads to long-run gains, but it can also involve costly short-run macroeconomic adjustment. The paper explores the relative importance of these effects within a dynamic general equilibrium model that captures key elements of both international trade and macroeconomic models. The welfare effect of trade liberalization is decomposed into a steady-state efficiency gain and a transitional loss associated with wage-price stickiness. Our estimates show that the transitional loss is small relative to the steady-state gain, and tends to be lower under flexible as compared to fixed exchange rates. We also show that the loss can be reduced further by a flexible price-level targeting policy rule.
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תיאור פיזי:1 online resource (26 pages)
פורמט:Mode of access: Internet
ISSN:1018-5941
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