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Capital Flows, the Current Account, and the Real Exchange Rate : Consequences of Liberalization and Stabilization

Obstfeld, Maurice - 1984

This paper develops a dynamic framework in which macroeconomic liberalization and stabilization measures of the type recently seen in Latin America can be studied. The model is sufficiently general to cover both polar cases of a closed capital account and free private capital mobility, so the...

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Financial Crises, Credit Booms, and External Imbalances : 140 Years of Lessons

Jordà, Òscar - 2010

Do external imbalances increase the risk of financial crises? In this paper, we study the experience of 14 developed …

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External Adjustment

Obstfeld, Maurice - 2004

Gross stocks of foreign assets have increased rapidly relative to national outputs since 1990, and the short-run capital gains and losses on those assets can amount to significant fractions of GDP. These fluctuations in asset values render the national income and product account measure of the...

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A Century of Current Account Dynamics

Taylor, Alan M. - 2002

Recent globalization trends have refocused attention on the historical evolution of international capital mobility over the long run. The issue is examined here using time-series analysis of current-account dynamics for fifteen countries since circa 1850. The inter-war period emerges as an era...

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External Imbalances and Financial Crises

Taylor, Alan M. - 2012

In broad perspective, there have been essentially two competing views of the global financial crisis, albeit there are some complementarities among them. One view looks across the border: it mainly blames external imbalances, the large-scale mix of unprecedented pattern current account deficits...

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Does the Current Account Still Matter?

Obstfeld, Maurice - 2012

Do global current account imbalances still matter in a world of deep international financial markets where gross two …" view of the world, large current account imbalances, while very possibly warranted by fundamentals and welcome, can also … increasingly big valuation changes in countries' net international investment positions, while potentially important in risk …

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