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Accounting for US current account deficits: an empirical investigation

Applied Economics, 1997
The sources of US current account deficits are investigated using a number of macroeconomic variables and a vector error correction model. The variables are those typically emphasized by the traditional income - expenditure approach and the intertemporal (Ricardian) approach. The results indicate that macroeconomic variables explain the current account
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ARE THE U.S. CURRENT ACCOUNT DEFICITS REALLY SUSTAINABLE?

International Economic Journal, 1999
We have tested for a long-run relationship between four U.S. Export measures and analogous import measures (measured in nominal and real terms, levels and deflated by GNP) in the 1967-1994 period using quarterly data. Using various econometric tests that include standard Engle-Granger cointegration tests and two tests that allow for test-determined ...
Fountas Stilianos, Wu Jyh-Lin
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Mercantilism and the Current Account Deficit

2016
In the last chapter, I presented evidence linking the current account deficit to the US housing boom, which raises the question of what drove the increase in the current account deficit. In this chapter, I explore the cause of the growth of the current account deficit and the accompanying capital flow bonanza during the US housing boom.
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Is the Current Account Deficit Sustainable?

Australian Economic Review, 1989
AbstractThis article argues that Australia's savings behaviour relative to its investment opportunities ensures a structural current account deficit which is fundamentally sustainable. In fact considerable scope seems to exist for it to widen further, irrespective of fiscal tightening that has occurred during the last few years, without alarming ...
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Red signals: current account deficits and sustainability

Economics Letters, 2004
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Raybaudi Marzia, Sola Martin, Spagnolo Fabio   +2 more
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The current account and the budget deficit in an interdependent world

European Journal of Political Economy, 1992
Abstract Analysis centres on a Keynesian two-country model with imperfect substitution between home and foreign goods, uncovered interest parity, augmented Phillips curve, wealth effects, current-account dynamics and intertemporal budget constraints for private agents and governments. Human wealth is assumed to depend on current income. The short-run
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The Deficit of Current Account Balances and Budgetary Deficit in Countries in Transition [PDF]

, 1998
During the last decade of this century the countries in transition (CIT) have undergone numerous changes in the field of the entire political, economic and social life. In restructuring process of their own economies, countries in transition deal with many common problems.
Sandra Krtalic, Ines Kersan
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Unbalanced Growth and the Sustainability of the Current Account Deficit

Review of International Economics, 2006
AbstractIn an endogenous growth framework, a two‐country economy is modeled with an integrated product and asset markets. The countries differ with respect to the share of their GDP that is redistributed through the fiscal system, and the country where this share is smaller tends to grow faster.
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Is the current-account deficit sustainable?

1998
How long can we service our growing international indebtedness without causing economic disruption? This explanation of the current-account adjustment process provides fundamental knowledge that will enable the reader to form opinions about the state of affairs and to estimate the probabilities of possible outcomes.
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Budget deficit and current account deficit in case of South Africa

Journal of Public Affairs, 2022
Umer Jeelanie Banday, Ranjan Aneja
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