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The intertemporal current account approach predicts that the current account of a small open economy is independent of global shocks, and that responses of the current account to country-specific shocks depend on the persistence of the shocks. This paper shows that these predictions impose...
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The intertemporal current account approach predicts that the current account of a small open economy is independent of global shocks, and that responses of the current account to country-specific shocks depend on the persistence of the shocks. This paper shows that these predictions impose...
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restrictions to identify empirically structural shocks from vector autoregressions of investment and the current account for Canada …
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formation on current account fluctuations in typical small open economies, Canada and the United Kingdom. Results reveal no …
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habit formation on current account fluctuations in a typical small open economy, Canada, by a Bayesian calibration approach …
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Tests of the present-value model of the current account are frequently rejected by the data. Standard explanations rely on the "usual suspects" of non-separable preferences, shocks to fiscal policy and the world real interest rate, and imperfect international capital mobility. We confirm these...
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This paper revisits Canada's pioneering experience with floating exchange rate over the period 19501962. It examines … whether the floating rate was the best option for Canada in the 1950s by developing and estimating a New Keynesian small open … that monetary policy was more volatile in the post-1957 period and Canada's macroeconomic performance suffered as a result …
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