We propose that analysis of purchasing power parity (PPP) and the law of one price (LOOP) should explicitly take into account the possibility of ‘commodity points’ – thresholds delineating a region of no central tendency among relative prices, possibly due to lack of perfect arbitrage in...

Written by Robert Mundell's academic descendants, as well as other leading economists and scholars, the essays in this volume reflect Mundell's broad influence on modern open-economy macroeconomics. The topics include the vicissitudes of gold in the international system, choice of exchange rate...

Keywords: US current account deficit, external imbalance, net foreign assets, real exchange rate, sustainability JEL Codes: F21, F32, F36, F41 ABSTRACT:We show that the when one takes into account the global equilibrium ramifications of an unwinding of the US current account deficit, currently...

This paper presents a quantitative evaluation of the effect on the yen of some alternative scenarios under which Japan reaches current account balance. The analytical framework is a global general-equilibrium model, based closely on Obstfeld and Rogoff (2005a, 2005b), within which relative...

We show that the when one takes into account the global equilibrium ramifications of an unwinding of the US current account deficit, currently running at more than 6% of GDP, the potential collapse of the dollar becomes considerably larger than our previous estimates (Obstfeld and Rogoff 2000a)...

The US current account deficit has been persistently large and has brought the country's ratio of foreign debt to GDP to 20%, a figure that is high by historical standards. This paper argues that while US solvency is not a near-term constraint on ongoing deficits, the sheer size of the US...

Nous examinons les differences entre les pays ou le financement de la croissance est assure par l'entree de capitaux financiers et ceux ou il resulte des flux d'investissements directs etrangers (IDE). L'analyse de quelques situations nationales confirme les intuitions theoriques: le financement...

After 1999, there will be two groups of european countries: those participating in the monetary union and the others. We ask the question of the exchange rate regime between those two groups of countries: flexible rates between the countries outside the union and the union, or fixed rates?

Nous construisons un modele simple d'equilibre de portefeuille entre les Etats-Unis et le Japon pour analyser les consequences des evolutions financieres recentes dans ces deux pays: politique monetaire et politique budgetaire tres expansionnistes au Japon; substitution de dette privee a la...