Abstract:This paper aims to understand how the returns to scale can boost or deprive the effects of exchange rate depreciation on economic growth. A simple mathematical model was developed to describe the problem of the exporting firm in this context of internationalization. Theoretical results show that exchange rate depreciations can boost the growth of production of firms with technologies with decreasing returns to scale, while in firms that have increasing returns of scale, the effect is null or negative. In addit… Show more
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