“…Commodity price shocks may give rise to a number of disturbances, external and internal, on the macro as well as the micro level. The external effects, working via exchange rates as well as international capital markets, have been analyzed by authors such as Findlay and Rodriguez (1977), Herberg (1976), Schmid (1976Schmid ( , 1981, Bruno and Sachs (1981), Sachs (1980), Krugman (1981), and Marion and Svensson (1984). Tolley and Wilman (1977) discuss the related issue of foreign dependence.…”