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Macroeconomic policy making and current account imbalances in the euro area

Murai, Taiki; Schnabl, Gunther - 2021

The paper analyses the role of fiscal and monetary policy for the development of the current account imbalances in the euro area, including the most recent developments during the coronavirus crisis. Several financial transmission channels such as international bank lending, changes in TARGET2...

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Macroeconomic policy making, exchange rate adjustment and current account imbalances in emerging markets

Duarte, Pablo; Schnabl, Gunther - 2014

Since a series of crisis events after 2007, the discussion about the adjustment channels of current account imbalances has been revived. We discuss the effectiveness of exchange rates versus macroeconomic policies to rebalance current accounts for a set of 86 mainly emerging market economies. We...

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Firm response to competitive shocks : evidence from China's minimum wage policy

Hau, Harald; Huang, Yi; Wang, Gewei - 2017

factor productivity growth-particularly among the less productive firms under private Chinese or foreign ownership, but not …

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Inflation tales : the heterogenous price effects from current account dynamics

Afonso, António; Alves, José; Jalles, João Tovar; … - 2024

This paper examines the impact of current account balances on energy, headline, and core inflation across developed and developing economies from 1980 to 2023. Using Panel OLS fixed effects, Panel-IV 2SLS and Panel Vector Autoregressive models, we find that an improvement in the current account...

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Exchange-rate adjustment and macroeconomic interdependence between stagnant and fully employed countries

Ono, Yoshiyasu - 2014

This paper presents a two-country two-commodity dynamic model with free international asset trade in which one country achieves full employment and the other suffers long-run unemployment. Own and spill-over effects of changes in policy, technological and preference parameters that emerge...

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The impact of financial (de-)regulation on current account balances

Moral-Benito, Enrique; Röhn, Oliver - 2014

Both global imbalances and financial market (de-)regulation feature prominently among the potential causes of the global financial crisis, but they have been largely discussed separately. In this paper, we take a different angle and investigate the relationship between financial market...

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Japan's imbalance of payments

Müller-Plantenberg, Nikolas - 2003

During the past three decades, Japan s current account experienced five large swings. The yen appreciated considerably in periods when the current account boomed, and it depreciated whenever Japan s external performance weakened. However, there has always been a certain lag in the adjustment of...

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Fiscal consolidation and the current account : OECD evidence

Breuer, Christian; Nam, Chang-woon - 2020

We apply a "new" conventional (CAPB-based) measure of fiscal policy, which is less prone to endogeneity issues, and find that a 1-percent of GDP fiscal consolidation leads to the improvement of the current account-to-GDP ratio by approximately 0.8 percent of GDP, while previous research based on...

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What do we really know about the transatlantic current account?

Braml, Martin T.; Felbermayr, Gabriel - 2019

Do the U.S. have a current account surplus or a deficit with the EU? Since 2009, official sources disagree: The U.S. Department of Commerce claims a consistent U.S. surplus while Eurostat reports the opposite. International transactions are notoriously difficult to measure accurately, but the...

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A stochastic optimal control approach to international finance and foreign debt

Fleming, Wendell Helms; Stein, Jerome L. - 1999

international finance and debt based upon two sources of uncertainty: the productivity of capital and the real int e rest rate. We … use stochastic optimal control-dynamic programming to derive the: optimal consumption, foreign debt, capital, the growth … y of consumption over an infinite horizon.Crises - and associated social unrest - occur when the unanticipated shocks …

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