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Patterns of Current Account Adjustment - Insights from Past Experience
Algieri, Bernardina; Bracke, Thierry - 2021
The paper examines episodes of current account adjustment in individual economies. A central finding is that these episodes are very divergent and can be usefully classified, on the basis of cluster analysis, in three groups. A majority of cases is characterised by internal adjustment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317000
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Patterns of Current Account Adjustment - Insights from Past Experience
Algieri, Bernardina; Bracke, Thierry - 2021
The paper examines over seventy episodes of current account adjustment in industrial and major emerging market economies. It argues that these episodes were characterised by strongly divergent economic developments. To reduce this divergence, the paper classifies episodes with similar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317052
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Can International Productivity Differences Explain U.S. Current Account Deficits?
Chakraborty, Suparna - 2008
An influential explanation for the recent rise in the U.S. current account deficit is the boom in U.S. productivity. As U.S. productivity surged in the mid-1990s, capital was attracted to the U.S. to take advantage of the higher real returns. Using a two country general equilibrium model, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012724898
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Patterns of current account adjustment: insights from past experience
Algieri, Bernardina; Bracke, Thierry - 2007
The paper examines over seventy episodes of current account adjustment in industrial and major emerging market economies. It argues that these episodes were characterised by strongly divergent economic developments. To reduce this divergence, the paper classifies episodes with similar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604808
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Patterns of current account adjustment: insights from past experience
Algieri, Bernardina; Bracke, Thierry - 2007
The paper examines episodes of current account adjustment in individual economies. A central finding is that these episodes are very divergent and can be usefully classified, on the basis of cluster analysis, in three groups. A majority of cases is characterised by internal adjustment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264156
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Forecasting Macedonian business cycle turning points using Qual VAR model
Petrovska, Magdalena; Krstevska, Aneta; Naumovski, Nikola - Narodna Banka na Republika Makedonija - 2016
This paper aims to assess the usefulness of leading indicators in business cycle research and forecast. Initially we … indicators performs in forecasting turning points of the Macedonian business cycle by employing the Qual VAR approach of Dueker … (2005). In continuation, we evaluate the quality of the selected indicators in pseudo-out-of-sample context. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011623919
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What a Difference a Day Makes: On the Common Market Microstructure of Trading Days
Gerhard, Frank; Hess, Dieter; Pohlmeier, Winfried - 1998
This paper analyzes the interday stability of the price process using transaction data. While the vast majority of empirical studies on the microstructure of financial markets rests on the tacit assumption that observed prices are generated by a time-invariant price process, we question this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324047
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Efficient Bargaining and the Skill-Structure of Wages and Employment
Kaiser, Ulrich; Pohlmeier, Winfried - 2000
This paper presents structural estimates for a bargaining model which nests the right-to-manage, the efficient wage bargaining, the seniority and the standard neo- classical labor demand model as special cases. In contrast to most existing models, our approach accounts for heterogeneous skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324070
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A Dynamic Integer Count Data Model for Financial Transaction Prices
Pohlmeier, Winfried; Liesenfeld, Roman - 2003
In this paper we develop a dynamic model for integer counts to capture the dis- creteness of price changes for financial transaction prices. Our model rests on an autoregressive multinomial component for the direction of the price change and a dynamic count data component for the size of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263413
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Do leading indicators help to predict business cycle turning points in Germany?
Fritsche, Ulrich; Kouzine, Vladimir - 2002
the interest rate spread, the long-term interest rate as well as some monetary indicators and some survey indicators can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437017