TITLE:
The Exchange Rate Response of Credit-Constrained Exporters: The Role of Location
AUTHORS:
Trond-Arne Borgersen
KEYWORDS:
Exports, Exchange Rate Response, Collateral, Balance Sheet Effects
JOURNAL NAME:
Theoretical Economics Letters,
Vol.6 No.5,
September
20,
2016
ABSTRACT: This paper analyses the exchange
rate response of credit-constrained exporters and highlights location-driven
balance sheet effects residing both on the real side and on the financial side
of the economy. A model focusing the location of production relative to both credit
markets and to the first and the second hand market for capital inputs introduces
a number of balance-sheet driven exchange rate effects. When it comes to location,
we consider four regimes, referred to as a developed, a developing and two transition
economies that differ with respect to production technology and credit market
structure, respectively. The export supply response differs both across
countries at different stages of development as well as between countries with
different strategies to globalisation.