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Exchange Rate Changes And Trade Balance: An Empirical Study Of The Case Of Japan, Ziwei Shao
Exchange Rate Changes And Trade Balance: An Empirical Study Of The Case Of Japan, Ziwei Shao
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This paper attempts to identify the major economic factors that influence the bilateral trade balance between Japan and the US. Differing from conventional elasticities approach, one more variable--the net foreign assets--is added in the Vector Autoregression estimation using quarterly data from 1980: I to 2006: IV. The Johansen and Juselius result indicates three long-run relationships among five macro variables: trade balance, domestic income, foreign income, net foreign assets and real exchange rate. Short run adjustment parameters are identified as coefficients of the error correction terms. The variance in trade balance due to variations in the two macro variables--the exchange rate …