International Competitiveness and Monetary Policy: Strategic Policy and Coordination with a Production Relocation Externality

Giancarlo Corsetti and Paul Bergin

No 9616, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: Can a country gain international competitiveness by the design of optimal monetary stabilization rules? This paper reconsiders this question by specifying an open-economy monetary model encompassing a ?production relocation externality,? developed in trade theory to analyze the benefits from promoting entry of domestic firms in the manufacturing sector. In a macroeconomic context, this externality provides an incentive for monetary authorities to trade-off output gap with pro-competitive profit stabilization. While helping manufacturing firms to set competitively low prices, optimal pro-competitive stabilization nonetheless results in stronger terms of trade, due to the change in the country?s specialization and composition of exports. The welfare gains from international policy coordination are large relative to the case of self-oriented, strategic conduct of stabilization policy. Empirical evidence confirms that the effects of monetary policy design on the composition of trade predicted by the theory are present in data and are quantitatively important.

Keywords: International coordination; Monetary policy; Production location externality; Firm entry; Optimal tariff (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-08
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