Open Economy Macroeconomics of Sectoral Interlinkage in a Developing Country

Autor: Bhaskar Goswami, Pia Ghoshal, Ranjanendra Narayan Nag
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Foreign Trade Review. 50:250-262
ISSN: 0971-7625
0015-7325
DOI: 10.1177/0015732515598588
Popis: The article considers dual economy interlinkage between a capitalistically organized industrial sector and an agricultural sector. We construct a structuralist model of sectoral interlinkage to examine importance of the agricultural sector in a developing economy. We take agricultural output as fixed which, however, can change due to technological progress. The employment and output in the industrial sector are determined on the basis of profit maximization in presence of wage indexation. In this framework, under the assumption of fixed exchange rate regime, we examine the comparative static effects of rise in food production, rise in speculative hoarding of food and devaluation on macroeconomic variables, namely, industrial employment, output and inflation. The model has also been modified to consider effects of policy changes under flexible exchange rate regime.
Databáze: OpenAIRE