Since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods System diverging current account positions in Europe have prevailed. While the Southern and Western European countries have tended to run current account deficits, the current accounts of the Central and Northern European countries, in particular Germany,...

Die Diskussion über die im Euroraum ungleiche Verteilung der Target2-Salden dauert nun schon fast ein Jahr an. Der Autor gibt hier einen Überblick über die einzelnen Argumentationslinien und kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass die Probleme im Euroraum nicht durch Target2-Salden, sondern durch die...

We study the relationship between the government budget balance and the current account balance for Portugal, using quarterly data from 1999 to 2019. On the one hand, the causality tests find a unidirectional relation running from the current account balance to the government budget balance. On...

Should we blame the euro for widening of current account deficits in the EMU? In this paper, we employ time-specific fixed effect estimator to study determinants of the current account deficits of the EU countries before and after adoption of the euro. Our aim is to assess to what extent the...