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Does pleasing export-oriented foreign investors help your balance of payments? A general equilibrium analysis

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Many developing countries have adopted investor-friendly policies in order to attract export-oriented foreign direct investment (FDI). The effects of these policies on the external accounts have largely been ignored. We endogenize FDI inflows in a structuralist general equilibrium framework to contribute towards filling this gap. Our economy consists of: (i) a non-tradable goods sector and (ii) an export processing zone (EPZ) that hosts transnational corporations. We find that most of the commonly pursued policies considered are likely to have a negative impact on the balance of payments due to: (i) income re-distribution towards groups more likely to spend on imported goods, (ii) higher capacity utilization in the (more import-intensive) EPZ, and (iii) the excess supply of non-tradables created, which in turn has an adverse valuation effect via a real internal depreciation. Strong backward linkages, however, may under certain conditions help offset the adverse impact through a favorable valuation effect. Copyright 2009 , Oxford University Press.

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  • Arslan Razmi, 2009. "Does pleasing export-oriented foreign investors help your balance of payments? A general equilibrium analysis," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 61(1), pages 128-149, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:oxecpp:v:61:y:2009:i:1:p:128-149
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    1. Arslan Razmi, 2018. "Does the demand regime matter over the medium run? Revisiting distributional issues in a portfolio framework under different exchange rate regimes," Metroeconomica, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 69(4), pages 708-736, November.

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