Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/208193 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-1042
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
This paper applies an agnostic structural vector autoregression (SVAR) approach to study the response of four Andean economies (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru) to international shocks. More specifically, we look at the response of gross domestic product, the real exchange rate, fiscal and trade balances, and inflation to global demand, commodity price, monetary and financial shocks. Our results confirm that the Andean region is highly exposed to changes in external conditions, and especially to global demand fluctuations associated with declines in commodity prices. However, despite the similarities that characterize these countries in terms of their income level or their export specialization, we find substantial heterogeneity in the effects of the shocks, which we attribute to differences in the shock-absorbing capacity of their macroeconomic frameworks. This result underlies the need to put in place external buffers to fully exploit the benefits of a greater presence in international markets, be it in the form of exchange rate flexibility, international reserves, or fiscal and monetary space to act countercyclically.
Subjects: 
International Shocks
World Demand
Commodities
Growth
Prices
Trade Balance
SVAR
Andean Region
JEL: 
F40
F32
Q02
E31
E32
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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