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Trade Liberalization, Macroeconomic Adjustment, and Welfare: Unifying Trade and Macro Models
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Author/Editor: |
Choudhri, Ehsan U. | Faruqee, Hamid | Tokarick, Stephen |
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December 1, 2006 |
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Summary: Trade liberalization leads to long-run gains, but it can also involve costly short-run macroeconomic adjustment. The paper explores the relative importance of these effects within a dynamic general equilibrium model that captures key elements of both international trade and macroeconomic models. The welfare effect of trade liberalization is decomposed into a steady-state efficiency gain and a transitional loss associated with wage-price stickiness. Our estimates show that the transitional loss is small relative to the steady-state gain, and tends to be lower under flexible as compared to fixed exchange rates. We also show that the loss can be reduced further by a flexible price-level targeting policy rule.
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Series: |
Working Paper No. 06/304 |
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Subject(s): |
Economic conditions | Economic models | Trade liberalization |
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Trade liberalization
| macroeconomic adjustment
| welfare cost of tariffs
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December 1, 2006 |
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1934-7073 |
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WPIEA2006304 |
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26 |
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US$18.00 (Academic Rate: US$18.00 )
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