Exchange Rate Changes and Trade Balance: An Empirical Study of the Case of Japan

• 主要作者: SHAO, Ziwei
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2008
• 主題: bilateral trade balance; foreign assets; Vector autoregression estimation; exchange rate; trade surplus; currency appreciation; International Economics
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll/15; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=etd_coll

This paper attempts to identify the major economic factors that influence the bilateral trade balance between Japan and the US. Differing from conventional elasticities approach, one more variable--the net foreign assets--is added in the Vector Autoregression estimation using quarterly data from 198...