Terms-of-Trade Shocks are Not all Alike.
When analyzing terms-of-trade shocks, it is implicitly assumed that the economy responds symmetrically to changes in export and import prices. Using a sample of developing countries our paper shows that this is not the case. We construct export and import price indices using commodity and manufactur...
Format: | Journal |
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Language: | English |
Published: |
Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
2020.
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Series: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
No. 2020/280 |
Online Access: | Full text available on IMF |