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Excess Savings and Twin Deficits : The Transmission of Fiscal Stimulus in Open Economies

Aggarwal, Rishabh; Auclert, Adrien; Rognlie, Matthew; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study the effects of debt-financed fiscal transfers in a general equilibrium, heterogeneous-agent model of the world … economy. In the long run, increases in government debt anywhere raise the world interest rate and increase private wealth … are consistent with the evolution of the world's balance of payments since the beginning of the Covid pandemic …

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The Dot-Com Bubble the Bush Deficits, and the U.S. Current Account

Kraay, Aart - 2005

Over the past decade the US has experienced widening current account deficits and a steady deterioration of its net foreign asset position. During the second half of the 1990s, this deterioration was fueled by foreign investment in a booming US stock market. During the first half of the 2000s,...

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Emergence of Asia : Reforms, Corporate Savings, and Global Imbalances

Fan, Jingting - 2016

One of the explanations for global imbalances is the self-financing behavior of credit-constrained firms in rapidly growing emerging markets. We use an extensive firm-level data set from several Asian countries during 2002-2011, and test the micro foundation of this theory by estimating the...

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Fiscal Limits in Advanced Economies

Leeper, Eric M. - 2011

Aging populations in advanced economies are placing ever-increasing demands on government spending in the form of old-age benefits. Economies that have promised substantially more benefits than they have made provision to finance are heading into a prolonged era of fiscal stress. Unresolved...

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The US as the "Demander of Last Resort" and its Implications on China's Current Account

Aizenman, Joshua - 2008

This paper evaluates the degree to which current account patterns are explained by the variables suggested by the literature, and reflects on possible future patterns. We start with panel regressions explaining the current account of 69 countries during 1981-2006. We identify an asymmetric...

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The U.S. Current Account Deficit : Gradual Correction or Abrupt Adjustment?

Edwards, Sebastian - 2006

In this paper I use a large multi-country data set to analyze the determinants of abrupt and large "current account reversals." The results from a variance-component probit model indicate that the probability of experiencing a major current account reversal is positively affected by larger...

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Is the U.S. Current Account Deficit Sustainable? And If Not, How Costly is Adjustment Likely To Be?

Edwards, Sebastian - 2005

In this paper I analyze the relationship between the U.S. dollar and the U.S. current account. I deal with issues of sustainability, and I discuss the mechanics of current account adjustment. The analysis presented in this paper differs from other work in several respects: First, I emphasis the...

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The U.S. Current Account and the Dollar

Blanchard, Olivier - 2005

There are two main forces behind the large U.S. current account deficits. First, an increase in the U.S. demand for foreign goods. Second, an increase in the foreign demand for U.S. assets. Both forces have contributed to steadily increasing current account deficits since the mid--1990s. This...

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The US Current Account Deficit and Economic Development : Collateral for a Total Return Swap

Dooley, Michael P. - 2004

We argue that a chronic US current account deficit is an integral and sustainable feature of a successful international monetary system. The US deficit supplies international collateral to the periphery. International collateral in turn supports two-way trade in financial assets that liberates...

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Pollution Trends and US Environmental Policy : Lessons from the Last Half Century

Shapiro, Joseph S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This article proposes and evaluates four hypotheses about US pollution and environmental policy over the last half century. First, air and water pollution have declined substantially, although greenhouse gas emissions have not. Second, environmental policy explains a large share of these trends....

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