• Media type: E-Book; Report
  • Title: Deregulation and the current account
  • Contributor: Harms, Philipp [Author]
  • imprint: Konstanz: Universität Konstanz, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, 2001
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: nontraded goods ; imperfect competition ; D43 ; deregulation ; F41 ; F32 ; current account
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  • Description: This paper studies how removing barriers to competition in the nontraded goods sector affects the current account, the real exchange rate, and factor prices in a small open economy. We show that the expansion of the nontraded sector that results from a deregulation shock is associated with an accumulation of foreign assets unless production of nontraded goods is very capital-intensive. Moreover, while the real exchange rate decreases monotonically towards its new steady state, the real wage may temporarily overshoot its long-run level.
  • Access State: Open Access