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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788416903321

Autore

Nickel Christiane

Titolo

Does Fiscal Policy Matter for the Trade Account? A Panel Cointegration Study / / Christiane Nickel, Katja Funke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-1549-6

1-4519-9137-1

1-283-51237-8

1-4527-0248-9

9786613824820

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (27 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

FunkeKatja

Soggetti

Balance of trade - Econometric models

Demand (Economic theory) - Econometric models

Expenditures, Public - Econometric models

Fiscal policy - Econometric models

Imports - Econometric models

Exports and Imports

Investments: General

Macroeconomics

Public Finance

Trade: General

National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General

Macroeconomics: Consumption

Saving

Wealth

Investment

Capital

Intangible Capital

Capacity

International economics

Public finance & taxation

Expenditure

Imports

Private consumption

Private investment

Exports

Expenditures, Public



Consumption

Economics

Saving and investment

Japan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"June 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. THE GOVERNMENT SECTOR AND THE TRADE ACCOUNT""; ""III. THE MODEL SPECIFICATION""; ""IV. EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS AND RESULTS""; ""V. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION""; ""APPENDIX 1: DATA DESCRIPTION AND SOURCES""; ""APPENDIX 2: SINGLE TIME-SERIES ESTIMATIONS OF TRADE ELASTICITIES FOR THE G- 7 COUNTRIES""; ""REFERENCES""

Sommario/riassunto

This paper analyzes the empirical relationship between fiscal policy and the trade account. Research prior to this paper did not consider that the components of private and public demand in the import demand equation exhibit different elasticities. Using pooled mean group estimation for annual panel data of the G-7 countries for the years 1970 through 2002, we provide empirical evidence that the composition of overall demand-i.e., the distribution among public demand, private demand, and export demand-has an impact on the magnitude of the trade account deficit.