Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/259427 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Citation: 
[Journal:] Latin American Economic Review [ISSN:] 2196-436X [Volume:] 27 [Issue:] 1 [Article No.:] 10 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2018 [Pages:] 1-24
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
The paper studies the effects of the real exchange rate (RER) on capital accumulation in Mexico in the period since the late 1980s. By testing for the existence of potential asymmetries, the paper seeks to clarify some of the controversies surrounding the subject. It shows the RER's long-run effects to be qualitatively symmetric but quantitatively asymmetric; thus, while appreciations slow accumulation, depreciations accelerate it, but to a lesser degree. Depreciations, moreover, have dynamically asymmetric effects, expansionary in the long run but contractionary in the short run. The effects are derived from non-linear autoregressive distributed lag models for the private capital accumulation rate in the manufacturing, tradables, and non-tradables sectors, and for the aggregate level of private fixed investment. The results help to reconcile the contradictory conclusions reached by previous studies of Mexico, and to clarify the potential role of the real exchange rate as either barrier or engine of growth.
Subjects: 
Real exchange rate
Capital accumulation
Investment determinants
Asymmetric effects
Non-linear ARDL model
Mexico
JEL: 
E22
F43
O11
O54
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Document Type: 
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