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The Cost of Export Subsidies: Evidence From Costa Rica

By Willy A Hoffmaister

October 1, 1991

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Willy A Hoffmaister. The Cost of Export Subsidies: Evidence From Costa Rica, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1991) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

This paper develops a model to estimate the effects of export subsidies on the supply of exports. Using data for Costa Rica over the 1980’s, it is shown that while the export subsidy scheme in operation led to an increase in exports, the direct fiscal costs of the scheme were quite large. Furthermore, the subsidy scheme led to a significant increase of imports. These results suggest that elimination of export subsidies would not have a particularly harmful effect on the trade balance, and would increase the fiscal position and generate economic efficiency besides.

Subject: Depreciation, Exchange rates, Export earnings, Export subsidies, Exports, Foreign exchange, International trade, National accounts

Keywords: Anti-export bias, Baseline export, Depreciation, Exchange rates, Export contract, Export earnings, Export incentive, Export promotion policy, Export revenue, Export subsidies, Export subsidy, Export supply, Exports, Supply curve, Supply response, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    36

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1991/094

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0941991

  • ISBN:

    9781451950670

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

Notes

Also published in Staff Papers, Vol. 39, No. 1, March 1992.

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