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7 Trade Elasticities and the Exchange Rate »
Chapter
Source: External Performance in Low-Income Countries
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Alessandro Prati , Luca Ricci , Lone Engbo Christiansen , Stephen Tokarick , and Thierry Tressel
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 March 2011
ISBN: 9781616350536
Keywords: External sector, Low-income developing countries, Real effective exchange rates, exchange rate, current account, real exchange rate, foreign assets, net foreign assets
Chapters 1 and 2 of this paper discussed the macrobalance approach, which is one method a researcher can use to determine the extent to which a country’s current account balance deviates from it...

6 Import and Export Elasticities »
Chapter
Source: External Performance in Low-Income Countries
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Alessandro Prati , Luca Ricci , Lone Engbo Christiansen , Stephen Tokarick , and Thierry Tressel
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 March 2011
ISBN: 9781616350536
Keywords: External sector, Low-income developing countries, Real effective exchange rates, exchange rate, current account, real exchange rate, foreign assets, net foreign assets
This chapter sets out the details of a methodology that can be used to calculate export supply and import demand elasticities without using econometrics. There is a long tradition in estimating trade elastic...