Globalization and Inflation-Output Tradeoffs
- Topics:
- Inflation
- Tags:
- Finance,
- Fluctuation,
- Free Trade,
- Globalization,
- Liberalization
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Overview: The report demonstrates how capital account and trade account liberalizations help reduce inefficiencies associated with the fluctuations in the output gap, relative to the inefficiencies associated with the fluctuations in inflation. With capital account liberalization the representative household is able to smooth fluctuations in consumption, and thus becomes relatively insensitive to fluctuations in the output gap. With trade liberalization the economy tends to specialize in production but not in consumption. The correlation between fluctuations in the output gap and aggregate consumption is therefore weakened by trade openness; hence a smaller weight on the output gap in the utility-based loss function, compared to the closed economy situations.
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Format: PDF | Size: 191KB | Date: Sep 2005 | Pages: 36
