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prices share the characteristics of asset prices, which tend initially to over- or undershoot their new long-run equilibria in response to positive or negative shocks in the presence of forward-looking expectations or in response to news that change market expectations of future shocks.8 Besides such short-run undershooting effects, the model with its 2004 benchmark data base also does not capture the speculative bubble elements in the 2008 pre-crisis oil price hike.9 Thus, the simulation compare equilibrium positions in the absence of pure speculative bubbles (that arguably would have burst anyway) and after initial undershooting effects have run their course. Moreover, the analytical framework precludes deflationary downward spirals in which negative expectations feed upon themselves and savings are hoarded rather than reinvested. The comparative-static equilibrium nature of the analysis implies that the simulation results presented below are not meant to provide precise point predictions for a specific date. To reiterate, the usefulness of the approach lies in its ability to provide geographically differentiated insights about the transmission of the OECD recession to developing countries through the channel of international trade, and thus to identify country characteristics that determine the degree of exposure to the crisis shock due to trade links in isolation from other potential crisis impacts. While the emerging global financial crisis literature is already replete with generic pronouncements about trade impacts on ―the‖ developing countries and with anecdotal evidence for individual countries, this is – to the best of our knowledge – the first systematic study that provides such geographically differentiated information. Recent global macroeconometric growth forecasts have turned out to be highly unreliable and the quantitative simulation results presented in this study are likewise subject to uncertainty. However, the main qualitative insights from the analysis are independent of the exact scale of the crisis shock.
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