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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788225803321

Autore

Christiansen Lone Engbo

Titolo

External Balance in Low Income Countries / / Lone Engbo Christiansen, Alessandro Prati, Luca Ricci, Thierry Tressel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

1-4623-1237-3

1-4527-9243-7

9786612844256

1-282-84425-3

1-4518-7368-9

Descrizione fisica

52 p. : ill

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

PratiAlessandro

RicciLuca

TresselThierry

Soggetti

Macronomics - Econometric models

Foreign exchange rates - Developing countries

Finance, Public - Developing countries

Exports and Imports

Foreign Exchange

Macroeconomics

Current Account Adjustment

Short-term Capital Movements

Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions

International Investment

Long-term Capital Movements

International economics

Currency

Foreign exchange

Current account

Real exchange rates

Personal income

Capital account liberalization

Foreign assets

Balance of payments

Income

Investments, Foreign

Developing countries Economic policy

United States



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"October 2009".

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

This paper offers a coherent empirical analysis of the determinants of the real exchange rate, the current account, and the net foreign assets position in low income countries. The paper focuses on indicators specific to low income countries, such as the quality of policies and institutions, the special access to official external financing, and the role of shocks. In addition to more standard factors, we find that domestic financial liberalization is associated with higher current account balances and net foreign asset positions, while capital account liberalization is associated with lower current account balances and net foreign asset positions and with more appreciated real exchange rates. Negative exogenous shocks tend to raise (reduce) the current account in countries with closed (opened) capital accounts. Finally, foreign aid is progressively absorbed over time through net imports, and is associated with a more depreciated real exchange rate in the long-run.