Balance-of-payment-constrained growth in unbalanced productive structures: disregarded terms of trade negative effects

Florencia Medici and Demian Panigo ()

Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 2015, vol. 38, issue 2, 192-217

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyze the relation between foreign asset formation (FAF) and terms of trade (TOT) in countries characterized by unbalanced productive structures (UPS). This is done by modifying the structuralist thesis about the (overstated) positive effects of a rise in TOT on the balance-of-payment equilibrium gross domestic product growth rate. The theoretical analysis follows Thirlwall’s law and its subsequent modifications. The paper’s main contribution will be to explain and formalize the low—and even null—effects of TOT on balance-of-payment constraints due to the quasi-rent generated in the export sector of a UPS. To reinforce this idea, the empirical section econometrically shows the existence of a significant and positive relationship between TOT and FAF in developing countries.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/01603477.2015.1065673

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