International spillovers, productivity growth and openness in Thailand: an intertemporal general equilibrium analysis

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.coverage.countryThailand
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2TH
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.coverage.regionSouth-eastern Asia
cg.creator.identifierXinshen Diao: 0000-0003-4843-1670
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Archive
cg.number89en
cg.placeWashington, DCen
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
dc.contributor.authorDiao, Xinshenen
dc.contributor.authorRattso, Jornen
dc.contributor.authorStokke, Hildegunn Ekrollen
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-24T12:43:09Zen
dc.date.available2024-10-24T12:43:09Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/156081
dc.titleInternational spillovers, productivity growth and openness in Thailand: an intertemporal general equilibrium analysisen
dcterms.abstractThailand has experienced economic growth well above world averages for about 40 years. It is a challenge to understand the sources of this high growth path, and in particular why growth has not slowed down with assumed decreasing returns to capital. We develop an intertemporal general equilbrium model separating between agriculture and industry, and with open capital market and endogenous productivity growth to analyze the underlying adjustment mechanisms. Foreign technology spillover embodied in trade is assumed to be the driving force of the productivity growth, consistent with econometric evidence. The high growth experience is understood as a transition path with interaction between productivity growth, openness and capital investment. Counterfactual analysis shows how protection may have had serious detrimental effect on growth rate due to productivity and investment slowdown. The role of relative prices in constraining growth is investigated, inspired by the Acemoglu-Ventura hypothesis of growth slowdown due to terms of trade effect. In our setting, low elasticity between domestic and exports goods in supply leads to large relative price shifts for domestic goods, but promotes investment and growth during transition.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationDiao, Xinshen; Rattso, Jorn; Stokke, Hildegunn Ekroll. 2002. International spillovers, productivity growth and openness in Thailand: an intertemporal general equilibrium analysis. TMD Discussion Paper 89. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/156081en
dcterms.extent51 p.en
dcterms.isPartOfTMD Discussion Paperen
dcterms.issued2002
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/69186en
dcterms.subjectgrowthen
dcterms.subjectmodelsen
dcterms.subjecttechnologyen
dcterms.subjecttrade policiesen
dcterms.subjectequilibrium theoryen
dcterms.typeWorking Paper

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