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Devaluation, Relative Prices, and International Trade: Evidence From Developing Countries

By Carmen Reinhart

November 1, 1994

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Carmen Reinhart. Devaluation, Relative Prices, and International Trade: Evidence From Developing Countries, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1994) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

Devaluation is an integral part of adjustment in many developing countries, particularly relied upon by countries facing large external imbalances. A devaluation can only reduce trade imbalances if it translates to a real devaluation and if trade flows respond to relative prices in a significant and predictable manner. However, a recent strand in the empirical trade literature has questioned the existence of a stable relationship between trade flows and its traditional determinants. This paper re-examines the relationship between relative prices and imports and exports in a sample of 12 developing countries.

Subject: Exports, Imports, International trade, National accounts, Personal income, Price elasticity, Prices, Trade balance

Keywords: Africa, Asia and Pacific, Developing country export, Exports, Import demand, Imports, Income elasticity, Personal income, Price elasticity, Relative price, Trade balance, Utility function, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    30

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1994/140

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA1401994

  • ISBN:

    9781451928679

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

Notes

Examines on the relationship between relative prices and imports and exports in a sample of 12 developing countries. Also published in Staff Papers, Vol. 42, No. 2, June 1995.

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