Anticipated Protectionist Policies, Real Exchange Rates and the Current Account

Sebastian Edwards and Jonathan Ostry

No 2214, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: In this paper a general equilibrium intertemporal model, with optimizing consumers and producers, is developed to analyze how the anticipation of future import tariffs affects real exchange rates and the current account. The model is completely real, and considers a small open economy that produces and consumes three goods each period. It is shown that, without imposing rigidities or adjustment costs, interesting paths for the equilibrium real exchange rate can be generated. In particular "equilibrium overshooting" can be observed. Precise conditions under which an anticipated future import tariff will worsen the current account in period 1 are derived. Several ways in which the model can be extended are also discussed in detail. The results obtained from this model have important implications for the analysis of real exchange rate misalignment and overvaluation.

Date: 1987-04
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Published as "Anticipated Protectionist Policies, Real Exchange Rates, and the Current Account: The Case of Rigid Wages." From Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol. 9, pp. 206-219, (1990).

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