Industrial policy and exchange rate scepticism

Open economy models of distribution and growth

Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira () and Fernando Rugitsky ()

Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2018, vol. 42, issue 3, 617-632

Abstract: The aim of the present paper is to put in historical perspective the development thinking on the relationship between industrial and exchange rate policies. The first section focuses on the thought of the so-called pioneers of development economics, specifically their preference for protectionism and their belated recognition that an exchange rate policy could act as a substitute to it. In the second one, we analyse the origins of exchange rate scepticism. The third section briefly complements the previous discussion with reference to macroeconomic formulations that allow for short-run contractionary effects of a devaluation, reinforcing the scepticism in question. In the fourth section, we discuss the revival of development thinking in the 1980s and its discussion about East Asian trajectories, a literature that placed great emphasis on industrial policy. Finally, in the fifth section, we discuss the new historical facts and the new development macroeconomics models that are putting an end to exchange rate scepticism.

Keywords: Exchange rate; Industrial policy; Protectionism; East Asian countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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