International Evidenceon the Determinants of Trade Dynamics

This paper provides some new empirical perspectives on the relationship between international trade and macroeconomic fluctuations in industrial economies. First, a comprehensive set of stylized facts concerning fluctuations in trade variables and their determinants are presented. A measure of the quantitative importance of international trade for the propagation of domestic business cycles is then constructed, focusing on the role of external trade as a catalyst for cyclical recoveries. Finally, structural vector autoregression models are used to characterize the joint dynamics of output, exchange rates, and trade variables in response to different types of macroeconomic shocks.
Publication date: December 1997
ISBN: 9781451858549
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Money and Monetary Policy , Money and Monetary Policy , International - Economics , International - Economics , Trade balance , exchange rates , OECD industrial economies , exchange rate , international trade , trade variables , real exchange rate , output growth

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