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Over recent years, several euro area countries have registered large and persistent net foreign liabilities. This paper examines the risks arising from these external stock imbalances, the prospects for their smooth unwinding and the menu of policy options. The paper demonstrates that external...
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Global trade imbalances narrowed in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. They have remained at a lower level … national saving and investment, which are in turn affected by policy distortions, including in trade policy. Simulations of the … OECD’s METRO model show liberalisation of existing trade distortions would modestly narrow aggregate trade imbalances in …
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Global financial integration has been associated with divergent patterns of real convergence and the current account in emerging markets. While countries in emerging Asia have been running sizeable current account surpluses, countries in emerging Europe have been facing large current account...
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associated with large changes in trade balances and despite the polarisation of international investment positions large currency … reducing exchange rate pass-through to the terms of trade, which may in turn have contributed to reducing the response of trade …
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In this paper, we take a systematic look at global imbalances. First, we provide a definition of the phenomenon, and relate global imbalances to widening external positions of systemically important economies that reflect distortions or entail risks for the global economy. Second, we provide an...
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