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A dynamic analysis of France's external trade

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  • Belessiotis, Tassos
  • Carone, Giuseppe

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The purpose of the present paper is to review the sources of France's trade surplus in recent years and to attribute trade balance movements strictly to those determinants of trade flows suggested by economic theory. These determinants are price and/or cost developments, and demand in France and in the rest of the world. A primary objective of the paper is to analyse the dynamics of adjustment of trade flows to changes in competitiveness and in relative demand. To do so, a cointegration/error-correction model is applied to flows of both imports and exports, and the estimates of key elasticities obtained are instrumental in shedding light on this question.

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  • Belessiotis, Tassos & Carone, Giuseppe, 1997. "A dynamic analysis of France's external trade," MPRA Paper 745, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:745
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    Keywords

    France trade balance; price competitiveness; export import; cointegration regression;
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    JEL classification:

    • F1 - International Economics - - Trade
    • E27 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
    • C22 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes
    • C50 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - General

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