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A Demand for Cuban Tobacco Exports
- The Journal of Developing Areas
- Tennessee State University College of Business
- Volume 47, Number 2, Fall 2013
- pp. 93-107
- 10.1353/jda.2013.0021
- Article
- Additional Information
The objective of this paper is to analyze the external sector on Cuban tobacco from the export demand perspective towards the euro area. A tobacco-specific exchange rate is built to better capture the distinctions of this sector when competing overseas. We apply cointegration in the Fully-Modified Ordinary Least Squares framework and complement an error correction mechanism. It is found that both long and short-run estimates of exchange rate elasticities are significantly inelastic but present, at the same time, a high degree of stability. This means that prices become a fundamental control variable for economic policy purposes. Moreover, there is statistical evidence that income elasticity plays a significant role in the determination of exports growth for Cuban tobacco.