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Effect of the global financial meltdown on India’s aggregate export volumes

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  • Ranajoy Bhattacharyya
  • Sayani Ghosh

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This paper sets up a demand-supply model to analyse India’s export performance (in terms of volumes rather than values) between 2000Q1–2014Q4. The main objective is to determine the impact of the financial meltdown of 2008 on India’s export performance. During the meltdown period, decline in price by India’s competitors in the international market resulted in (1) loss of competitiveness of India’s export goods and (2) a complete breakdown of the price mechanism affecting India’s export demand. Though export supply was not significantly affected by the meltdown episode we find evidence that exporting firms turned towards the domestic market to cope with the loss in export. The meltdown episode began to significantly affect India’s export demand and supply equations from 2009Q3. The demand and supply equations after that period became so unstable that ‘nothing worked’ for India’s exporters as they tried to counter the decline in export. Hence there was ample reason for them to panic and seek the government’s help. Government policies aimed at boosting export demand did have a positive impact on India’s export performance. Government policies to boost export supply had no impact except being palliative for the exporters at their moment of crisis

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  • Ranajoy Bhattacharyya & Sayani Ghosh, 2020. "Effect of the global financial meltdown on India’s aggregate export volumes," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 52(23), pages 2460-2471, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:52:y:2020:i:23:p:2460-2471
    DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2019.1691714
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