Trade and Financial Sector Reforms [electronic resource] : Interactions and Spillovers / Taylor, Ashley

By: Taylor, AshleyContributor(s): Taylor, AshleyMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2010Description: 1 online resource (40 p.)Subject(s): Access to Finance | Agency problems | Average productivity | Debt Markets | Economic Theory & Research | Emerging Markets | Equilibrium | Exports | Finance and Financial Sector Development | Financial Sector | Industrial economies | International trade | Labor Policies | Liquidity | Macroeconomics and Economic Growth | Marginal benefits | Marginal products | Political economy | Positive effects | Private Sector Development | Productivity | Social Protections and Labor | Total factor productivity | Trade liberalization | Trade policy | Trade reforms | Transition economies | Value added | WagesAdditional physical formats: Taylor, Ashley.: Trade and Financial Sector Reforms.Online resources: Click here to access online Abstract: The allocation of production across firms is a potentially important explanation of the productivity gap between rich and poor economies. Reforms to trade policy and the domestic financial sector are often both key elements of policy packages aimed at reducing productive distortions. However, the impact of each reform in reallocating production within an economy is usually analyzed independently. This paper asks how do such general equilibrium effects of trade and domestic financial sector reforms interact in terms of their effects on productivity, wages and utility. Motivated by recent firm-level studies, I add two-way linkages between firms' production and exporting decisions and their financial constraints to a general equilibrium heterogeneous firm trade model. The interaction effects between reforms appear qualitatively important. Trade and domestic financial sector reforms have complementary effects on the average productivity and size of domestic producers. However, if much reallocative work has already been done through a well-functioning financial sector, the marginal benefits of trade liberalisation for wages and household utility are reduced. Improvements in the ability to use exports as pledgeable collateral enhance both the wage and productivity effects of trade reforms. The model also highlights the potential for financial sector reforms in one economy to be exported via the trade channel, affecting decisions to produce or export in the foreign economy and putting downward pressure on foreign real wages.
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The allocation of production across firms is a potentially important explanation of the productivity gap between rich and poor economies. Reforms to trade policy and the domestic financial sector are often both key elements of policy packages aimed at reducing productive distortions. However, the impact of each reform in reallocating production within an economy is usually analyzed independently. This paper asks how do such general equilibrium effects of trade and domestic financial sector reforms interact in terms of their effects on productivity, wages and utility. Motivated by recent firm-level studies, I add two-way linkages between firms' production and exporting decisions and their financial constraints to a general equilibrium heterogeneous firm trade model. The interaction effects between reforms appear qualitatively important. Trade and domestic financial sector reforms have complementary effects on the average productivity and size of domestic producers. However, if much reallocative work has already been done through a well-functioning financial sector, the marginal benefits of trade liberalisation for wages and household utility are reduced. Improvements in the ability to use exports as pledgeable collateral enhance both the wage and productivity effects of trade reforms. The model also highlights the potential for financial sector reforms in one economy to be exported via the trade channel, affecting decisions to produce or export in the foreign economy and putting downward pressure on foreign real wages.

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