Abstract
We study a sample of nine developed and nine developing countries to evaluate the questions of how foreign income uncertainty and real exchange rate (RER) uncertainty impact international trade and how those impacts vary according to stage of development. RER uncertainty has a negative and significant impact on export growth for six of the nine less developed countries in our sample, while it has an insignificant effect for a majority of the developed countries. In both groups, foreign income uncertainty has a more pervasively significant (and frequently larger) influence on trade than does RER uncertainty.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 965-979 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Journal of Money, Credit and Banking |
Volume | 39 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 2007 |
Keywords
- Asymmetric GARCH
- Export growth
- Income uncertainty
- Real exchange rate uncertainty