Productivity Growth, External Shocks, and Capital Inflows in Chile: A General Equilibrium Analysis

Timothy Condon, Vittorio Corbo and Jaime de Melo

Chapter 5 in Modeling Developing Countries' Policies in General Equilibrium, 2015, pp 87-95 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: This paper uses a computable general equilibrium model to analyze the growth path of the Chilean economy during 1977–81. During that period a comprehensive package of reforms liberalized international trade and removed restrictive labor legislation. As a result of the reforms, there were large changes in relative prices and in the structure of production and demand, and the economy enjoyed unprecedented growth with declining inflation. But large macroeconomic imbalances become evident toward the end of the period and in 1982 Chile experienced an abrupt and severe recession. Taking the real exchange rate as an exogenous policy variable, and using the observed levels of employment growth and foreign capital inflows, this paper compares model-generated growth paths with those of the economy. First, the benchmark simulation path is used to estimate the magnitude and pattern of growth and productivity change during the 1971–81 period. Next, counterfactual simulations are used to assess how Chile's economic performance would have differed if (a) external events had been different; and (b) foreign capital inflows had been different. The analysis suggests that the macroeconomic imbalances that led to the crisis in 1982 were exacerbated by the large capital inflows and real exchange rate appreciation that resulted from the use of the exchange rate as a stabilization device.

Keywords: Applied General Equilibrium Models; Trade Policy; Computable General Equilibrium; Archetypes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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