Global financial integration has been associated with divergent patterns of real convergence and the current account in emerging markets. While countries in emerging Asia have been running sizeable current account surpluses, countries in emerging Europe have been facing large current account...

Financial globalisation has been associated with divergent current account patterns in emerging market economies. While countries in emerging Asia have been running sizeable current account surpluses, countries in emerging Europe have been facing large current account deficits. In this paper we...

The twelve Central and Eastern European Countries, which either joined the European Union in May 2004 or are scheduled to do so as early as 2007 , often show high current accounts deficit, which are sometimes close or even beyond those values common wisdom and past experience associate with a...