How does trade openness influence budget deficits in developing countries? /

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Author / Creator:	Combès, Jean-Louis, author.
Imprint:	[Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, Fiscal Affairs Dept., 2006.
Description:	1 online resource (20 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	IMF working paper ; WP/06/3 IMF working paper ; WP/06/3.
Subject:	Terms of trade -- Developing countries. Budget -- Developing countries. Budget. Commercial policy. Terms of trade. Developing countries -- Commercial policy. Developing countries.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12495477

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Other authors / contributors:	Saadi-Sedik, Tahsin, author. International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Department.
ISBN:	9781451907995 1451907990
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 17-20). Print version record.
Summary:	This paper analyzes the effects of trade openness on budget balances by distinguishing the effects of natural openness from those of trade-policy induced openness. Using the GMMsystem estimator, the econometric analysis focuses on 66 developing countries during 1974-98. The results show that trade openness increases a country's exposure to external shocks regardless of its underlying causes. This reinforces the adverse effects of terms of trade instability on budget balances. However, trade openness also influences budget balances through several other channels: corruption, income inequalities, etc. The paper shows that these additional effects of natural openness and trade-policy induced openness on budget balances go in opposite directions: the former deteriorates budget balances whereas the latter improves them.

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