Emerging Economies, Trade Policy, and Macroeconomic Shocks

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Chad P. Bown

Peterson Institute for International Economics; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Meredith Crowley

University of Cambridge - Faculty of Economics

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Date Written: January 1, 2013

Abstract

This paper estimates the impact of aggregate fluctuations on the time-varying trade policies of thirteen major emerging economies over 1989-2010; by 2010, these WTO member countries collectively accounted for 21 percent of world merchandise imports and 22 percent of world GDP. The paper examines determinants of carefully constructed, bilateral measures of new import restrictions on products arising through the temporary trade barrier (TTB) policies of antidumping, safeguards, and countervailing duties. The paper presents evidence of a counter-cyclical relationship between macroeconomic shocks and new TTB import restrictions as well as an important role for fluctuations in bilateral real exchange rates. Furthermore, the trade policy responsiveness coinciding with WTO establishment in 1995 suggests a significant change relative to the pre-WTO period; i.e., new import restrictions became more counter-cyclical and sensitive to real exchange rate shocks over time. Finally, the paper also presents results that explicitly address changes to the institutional environment facing these emerging economies as they joined the WTO and adopted disciplines to restrain their application of other trade policies such as applied import tariffs.

Keywords: Currencies and Exchange Rates, Economic Theory & Research, Free Trade, Emerging Markets, Debt Markets

Suggested Citation

Bown, Chad P. and Crowley, Meredith, Emerging Economies, Trade Policy, and Macroeconomic Shocks (January 1, 2013). World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6315, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2201403

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