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Report on the World Current Account Discrepancy

International Monetary Fund - 1987

The IMF, in cooperation with other concerned organizations, set up a working party to investigate and improve the statistical procedures being used, and to recommend compilation procedures that would make nations' balance of payments statistics more consistent with one another. In addition to...

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Fiscal Policy and the Current Account

International Monetary Fund - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between fiscal policy and the current account, drawing on a larger country sample than in previous studies and using panel regressions, vector autoregressions, and an analysis of large fiscal and external adjustments. On average, a strengthening in the fiscal...

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European Financial Linkages : A New Look At Imbalances

International Monetary Fund - 2010

We document external investment positions among European Union countries at the start of the financial crisis through the creation of a new database comprising bilateral external financial asset and liabilities, excluding reserve assets and derivatives. While there are some gaps in the data, the...

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Model of the U.S. Current Account

International Monetary Fund - 1988

This paper presents an econometric model of U.S. current account transactions. The model is used to analyze the factors behind the deterioration in the U.S. external position during the 1980s and to examine the sensitivity of the U.S. current account balance to changes in factors which are its...

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Balance of Payments Imbalances

International Monetary Fund - 2007

This paper focuses on the developing countries, which accounted for nearly half the value of those surpluses, were apparently unable to find sufficiently profitable investments at home that overcame market and political risk. The United States a decade ago likely could not have run up today's...

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The U.S. Current Account Deficit and the Global Economy

International Monetary Fund - 2004

This paper presents the views of Lawrence H. Summers on the U.S. current account deficit and the global economy. Summers highlights that the U.S. current account deficit is currently running well in excess of US$600 billion at an annual rate, in the range of 5.5 percent of GDP. It represents...

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External Sector Report, July 2018 : Tackling Global Imbalances amid Rising Trade Tensions

International Monetary Fund - 2018

The External Sector Report presents a methodologically consistent assessment of the exchange rates, current accounts, reserves, capital flows, and external balance sheets of the world's largest economies. The 2018 edition includes an analytical assessment of how trade costs and related policy...

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The Payments Systems Reforms and Monetary Policy in Emerging Market Economies in Central and Eastern Europe

International Monetary Fund - 1994

The paper discusses the interrelationships between payments system reform and monetary policy implementation in selected countries in Central and Eastern Europe. The reforms in the payments system are viewed as closely interrelated with the development of money and foreign exchange markets and...

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Bulgaria Financial Sector Assessment Program : Stocktaking of Progress Achieved by the Bulgarian National Bank in Strengthening Banking Supervision

International Monetary Fund - 2017

made by the IMF and the World Bank in their 2015 assessment report on the observance of Basel Core Principles (BCPs) for … effective banking supervision in Bulgaria. It provides an overview of the most recent initiatives taken by the Bulgarian … National Bank (BNB) to address the shortcomings found in the domestic supervisory regime. It also reflects the regulatory and …

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2015 External Sector Report

International Monetary Fund - 2015

After narrowing modestly in 2013, the global scale of current account imbalances, and of excess imbalances, held steady in 2014. Over the last several years, while the country composition of imbalances has rotated somewhat, overall there has been little progress on reducing excess imbalances....

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