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evidence from a gravity model indicating that the exports from the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the United States (US …
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The influential work of Obstfeld and Rogoff argues that a closing-up of the US current account deficit involves a large exchange rate adjustment. However, the Obstfeld-Rogoff model works exclusively via demand-side channels and abstracts from possible supply-side changes. We extend the framework...
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This paper extends the model of Engler et al. (2007) on the adjustment of the US current account to a three-country world economy. This allows an analysis of the differential impact of a reversal of the US current account on Europe and Asia. In particular, the outcomes under different exchange...
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We investigate the possibility that the large current account deficits of the U.S. are the outcome of optimizing behavior. We develop a simple long-run world equilibrium model in which the current account is determined by the expected discounted present value of its future share of world GDP...
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The influential work of Obstfeld and Rogoff argues that a closing-up of the US current account deficit involves a large exchange rate adjustment. However, the Obstfeld-Rogoff model works exclusively via demand-side channels and abstracts from possible supply-side changes. We extend the framework...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317053
We isolate a U.S. dollar currency premium by comparing corporate bonds issued in the dollar and the euro by firms o utside t he U .S. a nd e uro a rea. We make s everal empirical observations that dissect the perceived advantage of borrowing in the dollar. First, while the dollar dominates...
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There are two main forces behind the large U.S. current account deficits. First, an increase in the U.S. demand for foreign goods. Second, an increase in the foreign demand for U.S. assets. Both forces have contributed to steadily increasing current account deficits since the mid-1990s. This...
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countries and analyze the impact of a supply shock in an emerging economy, the People's Republic of China (PRC), on inflation …
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evidence from a gravity model indicating that the exports from the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the United States (US …
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rates. We set up a two-country two-sector model for the US-China with two asymmetries. First, we assume that the size of … China initially is one third of the US but its size becomes half of the US in the next ten years consistent with the fast … growth expectations in China. Secondly, we assume that China initially runs a net export surplus against the US. Then we …
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