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The Global Trade Slowdown: Cyclical or Structural?

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dc.contributor.authorConstantinescu, Cristina
dc.contributor.authorRuta, Michele
dc.contributor.authorMattoo, Aaditya
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-06T20:18:48Z
dc.date.available2021-08-06T20:18:48Z
dc.date.issued2020-02
dc.description.abstractThis paper focuses on the sluggish growth of world trade relative to income growth in recent years. We use a simple empirical strategy based on an error correction model to assess whether the global trade slowdown is structural or cyclical. An estimate of the relationship between trade and income in the past four decades reveals that the long-term trade elasticity rose sharply in the 1990s, but declined significantly in the 2000s, even before the global financial crisis. These results suggest that trade is growing slowly not only because of slow GDP growth, but also because of a structural change in the trade-GDP relationship in recent years. The available evidence suggests that a key driver of structural change over the 2000s is the slowing pace of international vertical specialization, which accounts for between one-quarter and one-half of the decline in import growth from the 1990s to the 2000s.en
dc.identifier.citationWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/36074
dc.identifier.issn1564-698X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/36074
dc.publisherPublished by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subjectGLOBAL TRADE
dc.subjectTRADE ELASTICITY
dc.subjectGLOBAL VALUE CHAIN
dc.subjectTRADE FLOWS
dc.titleThe Global Trade Slowdownen
dc.title.subtitleCyclical or Structural?en
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.typeArticle de journalfr
dc.typeArtículo de revistaes
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okr.date.disclosure2021-08-06
okr.date.doiregistration2025-05-06T11:05:11.012448Z
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Journal Article
okr.identifier.doi10.1093/wber/lhx027
okr.journal.nbpages121-42
okr.language.supporteden
okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.topicInternational Economics and Trade::International Trade and Trade Rules
okr.topicInternational Economics and Trade::Trade Liberalization
okr.topicMacroeconomics and Economic Growth::Economic Growth
okr.volume34(1)
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