Chakraborty, Suparna; Dekle, Robert - 2007
the rest of the world cannot explain the U.S. current account deficits, especially in the 1980s and the 2000s. This is … because on a GDP- weighted basis, the rest of the world actually had higher productivity growth during these periods, and … standard macroeconomic models would predict an outflow of funds from the U.S. to the rest of the world, and a consequent U …
