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Time Series Analysis of Export Demand Equations: A Cross-Country Analysis

By Claudio Montenegro, Abdelhak S Senhadji

October 1, 1998

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Claudio Montenegro, and Abdelhak S Senhadji. Time Series Analysis of Export Demand Equations: A Cross-Country Analysis, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1998) accessed September 20, 2024
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Summary

The paper estimates export demand elasticities for a large number of developing and developed countries, using time-series techniques that account for the nonstationarity in the data. The average long-run price and income elasticities are found to be approximately -1 and 1.5, respectively. Thus, exports do react to both the trade partners’ income and to relative prices. Africa faces the lowest income elasticities for its exports, while Asia has both the highest income and price elasticities. The price and income elasticity estimates have good statistical properties.

Subject: Export prices, Exports, Foreign exchange, International trade, National accounts, Personal income, Price elasticity, Prices, Real exchange rates

Keywords: Africa, Asia and Pacific, Cointegration, Elasticity estimate, Exchange rate, Export demand, Export demand equation, Export demand function, Export demand model, Export prices, Exports, Import demand elasticity, Income and Price Elasticities, Income elasticity, Personal income, Price elasticity, Real exchange rates, World export unit value, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    29

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1998/149

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA1491998

  • ISBN:

    9781451923582

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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