The Price of Imports and TFP: Application to the Korean Crisis of 1997-98

Seon Tae Kim

Review of Economic Dynamics, 2014, vol. 17, issue 1, 39-51

Abstract: This paper studies the effects of import-price shocks on measured output and productivity in a standard small open economy model and quantifies such effects in the case of the Korean crisis of 1997-98. I argue that it is the price of imported goods relative to the price of domestic goods but not the terms of trade that determine measured output and productivity. The simulated results show that shocks to the price of imports account for about half of the output deviation (from trend), one third of the TFP deviation and two thirds of the labor deviation in 1998. For the quantitative results, the extent to which the usage of imported goods is distorted is critical and substantially larger than tariffs because of significantly sizable non-tariff distortions. (Copyright: Elsevier)

Keywords: Price of imports; TFP; import-price wedge; Korean crisis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E13 E32 F16 F41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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