Hysteresis in Exports

May 1, 1995

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Giorgia Giovannetti, and Hossein Samiei. Hysteresis in Exports, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1995) accessed December 26, 2024

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Summary

This paper presents an empirical examination of the importance of hysteresis in international trade. An econometric model of export determination is developed where the presence of sunk costs causes discontinuous behavior and hysteresis so that individual exporters’ decision to stay in or out of the market depends on the current value of the exchange rate as well as its past history. The aggregate level of exports is then determined by the proportion of exporters that stay in the market. The resulting non-linear model is estimated using data on manufacturing exports for the United States, Germany, and Japan. The paper finds strong evidence in favor of the presence of pricing-to-market and hysteresis only in the case of Japanese exports.

Subject: Currencies, Exchange rate adjustments, Exchange rates, Export prices, Exports, Foreign exchange, International trade, Money, Prices

Keywords: Cost condition, Currencies, Currency terms, Equation quantity, Exchange rate, Exchange rate adjustments, Exchange rates, Export function, Export model, Export prices, Export volume, Exports, Firms initiate, Labor costs ct, Price equation, Supply and demand export model, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

20
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Series:

Working Paper No. 1995/052
Stock No:

WPIEA0521995
ISBN:

9781451847192
ISSN:

1018-5941

Notes

Models are estimated using data for the United States, Germany, and Japan.

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