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Exchange Rate, Income Distribution and Technical Change in a Balance-of-Payments Constrained Growth Model

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  • Rafael S. M. Ribeiro
  • John S. L. McCombie
  • Gilberto Tadeu Lima

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This article develops a formal model that accounts for the net effect of an exchange rate devaluation on the long-term balance-of-payments constrained growth rate. Such a model investigates how a currency devaluation impacts on the home country non-price competitiveness via changes in income distribution and the rate of technological innovation. The model is built upon two plausible hypotheses. First, it is assumed that the rate of technological innovation is directly related to the income elasticity of demand for exports and inversely related to the income elasticity of demand for imports. Second, it is assumed that a redistribution of income between labor and capital has an ambiguous direct impact on the income elasticities ratio. The model shows that the net impact of a currency devaluation on growth can go either way depending on the institutional framework of the economy.

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  • Rafael S. M. Ribeiro & John S. L. McCombie & Gilberto Tadeu Lima, 2016. "Exchange Rate, Income Distribution and Technical Change in a Balance-of-Payments Constrained Growth Model," Review of Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(4), pages 545-565, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:revpoe:v:28:y:2016:i:4:p:545-565
    DOI: 10.1080/09538259.2016.1205819
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    • O40 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - General
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • E25 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Aggregate Factor Income Distribution

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