The paper analyses the relationship between trade balance and government budget for the APEC countries over the 1980-2013 years. Using a panel data techniques, a 2-variable VAR is estimated. Empirical findings show that for the whole APEC members as well as for the ASEAN sub-sample a...

The article empirically examines the causal relationship between budget deficits and current account deficits in Namibia using annual data for the period 1991 to 2018. The article investigates this relationship in the context of Granger's causality test. Firstly, the results show that there is...