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Supply Pressure and the Export-Import Performance in the Japan-U.S. Bilateral Trade

By Yusuke Onitsuka

May 1, 1994

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Yusuke Onitsuka. Supply Pressure and the Export-Import Performance in the Japan-U.S. Bilateral Trade, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1994) accessed October 15, 2024
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Summary

The paper examines the effects of the supply pressure of the exports in the Japan-U.S. bilateral trade. A simultaneous equation approach with a Almon lag structure is adopted. Two factors of supply pressure, i.e., full-employment capacity and inventory are specified, and positively-sloped export supply functions with these two shift factors are successfully estimated. While capacity is positively correlated with exports, the inventory is often negatively correlated. It is also shown that export supply pressure is much stronger in Japan’s exports than in the U.S. exports, and that supply pressure often affects exports with a lag structure spreading over twelve quarters.

Subject: Export price indexes, Export prices, Exports, Imports, International trade, Prices, Wholesale price indexes

Keywords: Exchange rate, Export function, Export price indexes, Export prices, Export supply, Export supply function, Exports, Full-employment supply capacity, Function of the United States, Imports, PJ nd Pu, Price index, Supply pressure, Supply schedule, Wholesale price indexes, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    22

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1994/053

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0531994

  • ISBN:

    9781451847321

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941