Pakistan-EU Commodity Trade: Is there Evidence of J-Curve Effect?

BAHMANI-OSKOOEE, Mohsen and Iqbal, Javed and Nosheen, Misbah and Muzammil, Muhammad (2016): Pakistan-EU Commodity Trade: Is there Evidence of J-Curve Effect?

Abstract

In investigating the short run and the long run impact of currency depreciation on Pakistan’s trade balance, previous studies have either relied on using bilateral trade data between Pakistan and her trade partners or between Pakistan and the rest of the world and have found not much support for successful depreciation. Suspecting that these studies may suffer from aggregation bias, in this paper we use disaggregated trade data at commodity level from 77 industries that trade between Pakistan and EU. While we find short-run significant effects in 22 industries, these effects do not last into the long run in most industries. Most of the affected industries are found to be small, as measured by their trade shares.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: J-Curve, Bound testing, commodity trade, Pakistan, EU.
• Subjects: F - International Economics > F1 - Trade > F14 - Empirical Studies of Trade; F - International Economics > F3 - International Finance > F32 - Current Account Adjustment ; Short-Term Capital Movements

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