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The Real Exchange Rate, Innovation and Productivity: Heterogeneity, Asymmetries and Hysteresis / Laura Alfaro, Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger, Yanping Liu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alfaro, Laura.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w24633.
- NBER working paper series no. w24633
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Real Exchange Rate, Innovation and Productivity
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2018.
- Summary:
- We evaluate manufacturing firms' responses to changes in the real exchange rate (RER) using detailed firm-level data for a large set of countries for the period 2001-2010. We uncover the following stylized facts about regional variation of manufacturing firms' integration into global value chains: firms in emerging Asia are very export oriented relative to their dependence on imported intermediates; firms from Latin America and Eastern Europe depend heavily on imported intermediates compared to their export orientation; firms from high-income countries export on average as much as they import. Motivated by these facts, we build a dynamic model in which real depreciations raise the cost of importing intermediates, affect export demand, borrowing-constraints and the profitability of engaging in innovation (R&D). We decompose the effects of RER changes on average firm-level productivity growth across regions into these channels. We then structurally estimate the model and quantitatively evaluate the different mechanisms by providing counterfactual simulations of temporary RER movements. In export-oriented emerging Asia, real depreciations are on average associated with higher firm-level probabilities to engage in R&D, faster growth of firm-level productivity and cash-flow and higher export entry rates. We find negative average effects for firms in other emerging economies, which are relatively more import dependent, and no significant average effects for firms in industrialized economies. Effects on physical TFP growth, while different across regions, are non-linear and asymmetric.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- May 2018.
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