Global value chains and the exchange rate elasticity of exports

Ahmed Swarnali, Appendino Maximiliano and Michele Ruta
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Ahmed Swarnali: International Monetary Fund, 700 19th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20431, USA
Appendino Maximiliano: International Monetary Fund, 700 19th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20431, USA
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Swarnali Ahmed Hannan

The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 2017, vol. 17, issue 1, 24

Abstract: This paper analyzes how the formation of global value chains (GVCs) has affected the exchange rate elasticity of exports. Using a panel framework covering 46 countries over the period 1996–2012, we first find some suggestive evidence that the elasticity of real manufacturing exports to the real effective exchange rate (REER) has decreased over time. We then examine whether the formation of supply chains has affected this elasticity using different measures of GVC integration. Intuitively, as countries are more integrated in global production processes, a currency depreciation only improves competitiveness of a fraction of the value of final good exports. In line with this intuition, we find evidence that GVC participation reduces the REER elasticity of manufacturing exports by 22 percent, on average.

Keywords: export growth; global value chains; real exchange rate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 F15 F31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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