• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Assessing the Marshall–Lerner condition within a stock-flow consistent model
  • Beteiligte: Carnevali, Emilio; Fontana, Giuseppe; Veronese Passarella, Marco
  • Erschienen: Oxford University Press (OUP), 2020
  • Erschienen in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 44 (2020) 4, Seite 891-918
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1093/cje/bez060
  • ISSN: 0309-166X; 1464-3545
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  • Beschreibung: AbstractWe derive the general equilibrium condition for the terms of trade in a two-country economy model. We show that the Marshall–Lerner condition is only a special case of this condition, in which a full exchange rate pass-through to import prices is assumed. In fact, the Marshall–Lerner condition is not even a ‘useful approximation’ of the general condition. For the full pass-through assumption has destabilising, rather than stabilizing, effects, when it is introduced in a stock-flow consistent dynamic model. More generally, the higher (lower) the pass-through, the slower (quicker) is the adjustment of the economy towards the equilibrium. This is tantamount to saying that the speed of adjustment is a positive function of the strategic behaviour of the exporters, who attempt to retain their market share by keeping their foreign currency-denominated prices unchanged.