Title: The Permanent Export Hypothesis and Foreign Trade of a Centrally Planned Economy: A Case Study of North Korea
Author: Kim, Sungwoo
Author Affiliation: Northeastern U
Source: International Economic Journal, Winter 1993, v. 7, no. 4, pp. 49-57
Publication Date: Winter 1993
Abstract: Huge outstanding debts of Third World Centrally Planned Economies (CEPs) notwithstanding, their trades with industrialized countries have been continuing briskly. In order to safeguard against an aggravation of current debts of the CPE, however, an industrialized country determines annually the maximum amount of imports permitted for a CPE on the basis of the CPE's permanent exports. This paper attempts to develop a permanent export model and apply it to the foreign trade of North Korea.