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This paper develops a dynamic framework in which macroeconomic liberalization and stabilization measures of the type …-account liberalization leads to an initial period of real appreciation, but a long-run real depreciation; and the economy passes through … that are the opposite of those arising from capital-account opening. The model suggests that capital-account liberalization …
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This paper develops a dynamic framework in which macroeconomic liberalization and stabilization measures of the type …-account liberalization leads to an initial period of real appreciation, but a long-run real depreciation; and the economy passes through … that are the opposite of those arising from capital-account opening. The model suggests that capital-account liberalization …
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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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...
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