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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827364503321

Autore

Turnovsky Stephen

Titolo

Foreign Aid and Real Exchange Rate Adjustments in a Financially Constrained Dependent Economy / / Stephen Turnovsky, Serpil Tekin, Valerie Cerra

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2008

ISBN

1-4623-9211-3

1-4527-6825-0

1-4518-7062-0

1-282-84155-6

9786612841552

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (47 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

IMF working paper ; ; WP/08/204

Altri autori (Persone)

TekinSerpil

CerraValerie

Disciplina

338.91

Soggetti

Economic assistance - Econometric models

Foreign exchange rates - Econometric models

Structural adjustment (Economic policy) - Econometric models

Exports and Imports

Foreign Exchange

Macroeconomics

Public Finance

Production and Operations Management

Employment

Unemployment

Wages

Intergenerational Income Distribution

Aggregate Human Capital

Aggregate Labor Productivity

Foreign Aid

Macroeconomics: Consumption

Saving

Wealth

National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General

Currency

Foreign exchange

International economics

Public finance & taxation



Real exchange rates

Capital productivity

Foreign aid

Consumption

Expenditure

International relief

Economics

Expenditures, Public

Turkey

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Introduction; II. Two Sector Model of Foreign Aid; A. The Economic Structure; B. Macroeconomic Equilibrium; III. Steady State Equilibrium; A. Long-Run Effects of Transfers on the Relative Price; B. Transfers, Economic Activity, and the Dutch Disease; IV. Numerical Analysis; A. Calibration; B. Optimal Government Spending; C. Initial Benchmark Equilibria; V. Foreign Aid Flows: General Characteristics of Real Exchange Rates; VI. Pure Transfer; A. Traded Sector is Capital Intensive: (α > β ); B. Nontraded sector is capital intensive: (β >α )

VII. Productive Government Spending in the Traded Sector A. Traded sector is capital intensive (α > β ); B. Nontraded sector is capital intensive (β >α ); VIII. Productive Government Spending in the Nontraded Sector; IX. Welfare Analysis; X. Effect of Cost of Debt; XI. Conclusions; Tables; 1. The Benchmark Economy; 2. Key Steady-State Equilibrium Ratios; 3. Steady-State Responses to Permanent Changes; 4. Welfare Analysis; Figures; 1. Capital and Debt; 2. Financial Variables; 3. Sectoral Activity and Output; 4. Consumption and Welfare; 5. Sensitivity to Borrowing Premium: Untitled Transfer

6. Sensitivity to Borrowing Premium: Productive Transfer to Traded Sector 7. Sensitivity to Borrowing Premium: Productive Transfer to Nontraded Sector; Appendix; References

Sommario/riassunto

A dynamic dependent-economy model is developed to investigate the role of the real exchange rate in determining the effects of foreign aid. If capital is perfectly mobile between sectors, untied aid has no longrun impact on the real exchange rate. A decline in the traded sector occurs because aid, being denominated in traded output, substitutes for exports in financing imports. While untied aid causes short-run real exchange appreciation, this response is very temporary and negligibly small. Tied aid, by influencing sectoral productivity, does generate permanent relative price effects. The analysis, which employs extensive numerical simulations, emphasizes the tradeoffs between real exchange adjustments, long-run capital accumulation, and economic welfare, associated with alternative forms of foreign aid.