Devaluation and trade balance in Latin American countries

Huseyin Kalyoncu, Ilhan Ozturk, Seyfettin Artan and Kahraman Kalyoncu
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Kahraman Kalyoncu: Aksaray University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Aksaray, Turkey

Zbornik radova Ekonomskog fakulteta u Rijeci/Proceedings of Rijeka Faculty of Economics, 2009, vol. 27, issue 1, 115-128

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to examine effectiveness of devaluation on the trade balance in four countries: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Peru. We use the Johansen-Juselius cointegration test and impulse response function to estimate the long-run and short- run effects of devaluation on the trade balance. The estimated results suggest that depreciation improve the trade balance in the long run for the case of Argentina and Peru, and in the short-run there has been J-curve in Argentina and Peru. In addition, the cointegration is found among the four variables (trade balance, domestic income, foreign incomes and real exchange rate) in the case of Argentina and Peru. The results also indicate that there is no cointegration relationship between these variables for Brazil and Mexico. The conclusion of the paper is that the evidence of the J-curve pattern was found for Argentina and Peru only.

Keywords: trade balance; J-Curve; Marshal-Lerner condition; cointegration; impulse response analysis; Latin America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F30 F32 F41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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