Prevalence of twin deficits in selected European Union countries and in Poland in the years 2009–2018 [PDF]
The aim of the article is to determine the degree, direction and strength of impact of the studied variables, i.e. the state budget balance and the current account balance as part of Poland’s balance of payments in the years 2009-2018 against the ...
Izabela Zawiślińska, Piotr Cirin
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The impact of regulations and institutions on competitiveness and productivity: the case of Greece [PDF]
The discussion on the causes of the Greek crisis has focused on the twin deficits: the fiscal and current-account deficit. The objective of this paper is to examine how the twin deficits came about implicating structural features of the Greek economy ...
Daphne Nicolitsas
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Investigating a threshold effect in Twin Deficit Hypothesis: Evidence from the BRICS Economies
Over the years, empirical evidence on twin-deficit hypothesis has been inconsistent. While some support it, others affirm the prevalence of the Ricardian Equivalence.
Tochukwu Timothy Okoli +2 more
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Ricardian equivalence or twin deficits hypothesis? Evidence from Serbia [PDF]
This study investigates empirically whether higher budget deficits worsen the current account balance in Serbia, which is in line with the twin deficit hypothesis.This prediction is very different from Ricardian equivalence theory, which implies
Rašković Jelena
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The twin deficits and economic growth in selected African countries
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the twin deficit hypothesis and its effect on economic growth for selected African countries using panel data ranging from 1988 to 2018.
A. Aragaw
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The impact of public debt on the twin imbalances in Europe: A threshold model [PDF]
Recent empirical research rejecting twin deficits in indebted countries and current account imbalances adjustment in Europe led to the idea to test the twin imbalances at different public debt-to-GDP intervals.
Šuliková Veronika, Tykhonenko Anna
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Financial integration, euro and the twin deficits of southern Eurozone countries [PDF]
The purpose of this study is the examination of the relationship between fiscal and Current Account balances for the countries of southern eurozone. The twin deficit hypothesis is tested within the context of a portfolio model involving variables from
Kosteletou Nikolina E.
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A nation-wide twin study of social cognition in schizophrenia spectrum disorders
We examined social cognition in 32 monozygotic (MZ) and 21 dizygotic (DZ) twin pairs concordant or discordant for a schizophrenia spectrum diagnosis and healthy control (HC) twin pairs (29 MZ/20 DZ).
Cecilie K. Lemvigh +2 more
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Twin Deficits, Openness, and the Business Cycle [PDF]
In this paper, we study the co-movement of the government budget balance and the trade balance at business cycle frequencies. In a sample of 10 OECD countries we find that the correlation of the two time series is negative, but less so in more open economies. Moreover, for the US the cross-correlation function is S-shaped.
Corsetti, Giancarlo, Müller, Gernot
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Ricardian equivalence and twin deficits hypotheses in the euro area
Cosimo Magazzino, Francesco Forte
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