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Are the current accounts of Asian-5 economies mean-reverting? : new evidence from Fourier panel stationarity tests

Husein, Jamal; Kara, S. Murat; Pier, Chuck - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-11

This study offers a novel examination of the mean-reversion properties of the current account balances, expressed as a percentage of GDP, for the Asian-5 economies: Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand. While prior studies mainly employed traditional unit-root tests, our...

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Assessing the Sustainability of External Imbalances in the European Union

Afonso, António - 2017

We assess the sustainability of the current account (CA) balance, net international investment position (NIIP) and net external debt (NED) in a sample of EU countries using two complementary approaches. First, we employ both time-series and panel-data stationarity tests of current account...

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Sustainability of current account deficit in Turkey

Karahan, Özcan - In: International journal of business and economic sciences … 13 (2020) 2, pp. 62-69

Purpose: This study aims to examine the sustainability of the current account deficit in Turkey for the quarterly data between 2003 and 2018. Besides, some policy implications are made to ensure the sustainability of the current account deficit in Turkey’s economy. Design/methodology/approach:...

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Purchasing Power Parity in High Inflation Countries : A Cointegration Analysis of Integrated Variables with Trend Breaks

Zhou, Su - 1998

This paper examines the long-run validity of purchasing power parity (PPP) for four high-inflation countries. The method of Zivot and Andrews (1992) is employed to detect the time-series behavior of the exchange rates and consumer price indices of these countries. We find that these variables...

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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 …

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A Discrete Time Series Model for High Frequency Financial Data

Mitchell, Heather Eunice - 2012

In this paper a flexible model for correlation in high frequency data is proposed, which maintains the data's discrete nature and captures features such as asymmetry and excess zeros. The model uses an a theoretical approach based on that of an ARIMA model. This model works with price changes...

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Current-account imbalances and economic growth during the 2008 - 2009 financial crisis : an empirical analysis

Rangelove, Rossitsa - In: Contemporary economics 8 (2014) 2, pp. 123-136

This study examines the relationship between current-account imbalances and economic growth during the 2008-2009 financial and economic crisis for 179 countries (covered by IMF data) and within the EU-27 countries (covered by Eurostat data). The countries are divided into 4 groups by GDP per...

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Current account deficit in Turkey : cyclical or structural?

Kara, Hakan; Sarıkaya, Çağrı - 2014

Turkey's high current account deficit has been at the core of macroeconomic policy discussions in recent years. Quantifying the role of cyclical factors in driving the current account fluctuations is essential for designing an appropriate policy response and evaluating the impact of policy...

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Do We Really Know that Flexible Exchange Rates Facilitate Current Account Adjustment? Some New Empirical Evidence for CEE Countries

Herrmann, Sabine - 2016

This paper examines the relationship between the exchange rate regime and the pace of current account adjustment. The panel data set we refer to includes 11 catching-up countries from central, eastern and south-eastern Europe between 1994 and 2007. The exchange rate regime is measured by a...

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What Drives EMU Current Accounts? A Time Varying Structural VAR Approach

Podstawski, Maximilian - 2016

Current account imbalances have been a decisive feature of the European banking and sovereign debt crisis. This paper investigates the drivers of euro area current accounts, their divergence and subsequent rebalancing, within a structural model accommodating potential regime changes at the...

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