Terms-of-Trade Cycles and External Adjustment /

We study the process of external adjustment to large terms-of-trade level shifts-identified with a Markov-switching approach-for a large set of countries during the period 1960-2015. We find that adjustment to these shocks is relatively fast. Current accounts experience, on average, a contemporaneou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adler, Gustavo
Other Authors: Magud, Nicolas, Werner, Alejandro
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/029
Online Access:Full text available on IMF