International Trade, Commodities and Dutch Disease: Comparative Study of Static Effects in Chile and Norway ; Comercio internacional, materias primas y enfermedad holandesa: estudio comparativo de Noruega y Chile

In recent years, significant growth in prices of raw materials has generated renewed interest in the relationship between export earnings from raw materials and their effects on economic growth. While traditionally this relationship has been considered positive, the sudden increase in external resources has also been analyzed for their potential negative effects on competitiveness and industrialization of economies. This phenomenon is known as “Dutch disease”. Triggered if an increase in export earnings of a natural resource produces an appreciation of the exchange rate, which, in turn, result... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Sánchez Díez, Angeles
García de la Cruz, José Manuel
Del Sur, Ana
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
Verlag/Hrsg.: Universidad de Huelva
Schlagwörter: International Trade / Commodities / Dutch Disease / Oil / Copper / Comercio internacional / materias primas / enfermedad holandesa / petróleo / cobre
Sprache: Spanish
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In recent years, significant growth in prices of raw materials has generated renewed interest in the relationship between export earnings from raw materials and their effects on economic growth. While traditionally this relationship has been considered positive, the sudden increase in external resources has also been analyzed for their potential negative effects on competitiveness and industrialization of economies. This phenomenon is known as “Dutch disease”. Triggered if an increase in export earnings of a natural resource produces an appreciation of the exchange rate, which, in turn, results in an increase in the relative price of other goods traded in the international market, deteriorating competitiveness and ultimately coming to depress economic activity. In this paper, we study the cases of Chile and Norway. We estimate VAR model to contract the hypothesis of Dutch disease in these economies. ; En los últimos años, el importante crecimiento de los precios de las materias primas ha despertado nuevamente el interés de la relación entre los ingresos por exportación de materias primas y sus efectos sobre el crecimiento económico. Si bien tradicionalmente esta relación se ha considerado positiva, ya que, en definitiva, revaloriza las ventajas de la especialización, el súbito incremento de recursos externos también ha sido objeto de análisis por sus potenciales efectos negativos sobre la competitividad y la industrialización de las economías. Este fenómeno es conocido como “enfermedad holandesa”, desencadenándose si un incremento de los ingresos por exportación de un recurso natural produce una apreciación del tipo de cambio de la divisa nacional, lo que, a su vez, origina un incremento del precio relativo del resto de bienes comercializables en el mercado internacional, deteriorando su competitividad y, en última instancia, llegando a deprimir su actividad económica. En este artículo se estudiarán los casos de Noruega y Chile.