Understanding the Evolution of Trade Deficits: Trade Elasticities of Industrialized Countries

16 Pages Posted: 11 Nov 2007

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Leland Dod Crane

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Meredith Crowley

University of Cambridge - Faculty of Economics

Saad Quayyum

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Abstract

In this article, the authors present updated trade elasticities - measures of how much imports and exports change in response to income and price changes - for the U.S. and six other industrialized countries, collectively known as the Group of Seven. They find that the imports and exports of these countries are slightly more responsive to changes in a country's total income over a period that ends in 2006, compared with a period that ends in 1994.

Keywords: trade deficit, trade balance, import elasticity, export elasticity, trade elasticities, Trade Forecasting and Simulation, Forecasting and Simulation

Suggested Citation

Crane, Leland Dod and Crowley, Meredith and Quayyum, Saad, Understanding the Evolution of Trade Deficits: Trade Elasticities of Industrialized Countries. Economic Perspectives, Vol. 31, No. 4, 2007, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1028746

Leland Dod Crane

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Meredith Crowley (Contact Author)

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Saad Quayyum

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

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