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The classical argument for free trade stressed the possibilities of economic growth by exploiting the gains from trade. A trade surplus per se was not the main objective; presumably the argument was that trade would be balanced at the new higher growth rate. Moreover, the arguments for free trade...
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Current account deficits imply increasing liabilities to the rest of the world. External sustainability then depends on whether these can be met in the future without defaulting, i.e., normally through trade account surpluses. To run such surpluses without a fall in consumption, capital inflows...
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The article analyses a development of the external balance in five Central and Eastern European countries: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, the Slovak Republic, and Slovenia. The main idea of the article is to apply, expand, and empirically verify the ideas of life cycle theory in the area...
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-term savings funds but due to low remuneration and other factors usage has remained limited. The paper also argues that regional … savings in the form of reserve accumulation must be sufficient to ensure the stability of the common currency. While the … country-specific savings decisions and the setting of a regional reserve target. Strengthening and diversifying reserve …
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This paper provides an empirical investigation of the medium-term determinants of current accounts for a large sample of industrial and developing countries. The analysis is based on a structural approach that highlights the roles of the fundamental macroeconomic determinants of saving and...
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The monetary programme – constructed on a quarterly basis in the NBH – is a crucial internal product of the decision making process. The programme evaluates the development of net financing capacities of different sectors and the monetary survey and gives a financial side story about the...
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This paper reports on an empirical investigation of the impact of GDP volatility on current account balances for a large sample of developed and developing countries. We extend the standard set of short- and long-term determinants of current accounts to include GDP volatility computed from the...
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The effectiveness of recent fiscal stimulus packages significantly depends on the assumption of non-Ricardian savings …
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