Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/121703 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Texto para Discussão No. 2046
Publisher: 
Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA), Brasília
Abstract (Translated): 
In contrast to what both traditional economic theory and the conventional wisdom among most Brazilian macroeconomists would suggest, recent studies point to a low exchange rate elasticity of Brazilian imports. In this study we provide a rationale for this result by revisiting the behavior of imports disaggregated in seven different categories. According to the results reported in this paper, the low exchange rate elasticity of total imports reflects the low elasticities of intermediate goods, oil and fuel, and services such as transportation, royalties, and rents paid on machinery and equipment; which amount to about two thirds of aggregate Brazilian imports. We find that several of these imports have low or null possibility of substitution for national products, due to structural deficiencies in Brazilian productive capacity.
Subjects: 
exchange rate elasticity of imports
exchange rates
disaggregated imports
JEL: 
F14
L16
F40
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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