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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817159303321

Autore

Lee Jaewoo

Titolo

Accounting for Global Dispersion of Current Accounts / / Jaewoo Lee, Yongsung Chang, Sun-Bin Kim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-4623-9409-4

1-4527-3895-5

1-282-84463-6

1-4518-7421-9

9786612844638

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

33 p. : ill

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

ChangYongsung

KimSun-Bin

Disciplina

332.152

Soggetti

Accounting

Deficit financing

Exports and Imports

Current Account Adjustment

Short-term Capital Movements

International Investment

Long-term Capital Movements

Empirical Studies of Trade

International economics

Current account

Foreign assets

Trade balance

Current account balance

Current account imbalances

Balance of payments

Investments, Foreign

Balance of trade

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- I. Introduction -- II. Global Dispersion of Current Accounts -- 1. Current Account to GDP -- 1. Distributions of Current Account, Net Foreign Asset, and Trade Balance -- 2. Net Foreign Asset to GDP -- 3. Trade Balance to GDP -- III. Theory -- A. Motivation -- B. Model -- IV. Quantitative Analysis -- A. Calibration -- 2. Parameters of the Benchmark Model Economy -- B. Benchmark Economy -- 4. Stationary Distribution of Benchmark Economy -- 5. Stationary Distribution of Benchmark Economy -- 3. Standard Deviations of Current Account, Net Foreign Asset, and Trade Balance -- C. Economies under Greater Frictions -- 6. Model Comparison: Current Account/GDP -- D. Comparing Stylized Facts among Model Economies -- 4. Persistence of Current Account, Net Foreign Asset, and Trade Balance -- 5. Distribution of Current Account -- E. Discussion -- V. Conclusion -- A. National Incomes -- B. Current Accounts -- References -- Footnotes.

Sommario/riassunto

We undertake a quantitative analysis of the dispersion of current accounts in an open economy version of incomplete insurance model, incorporating important market frictions in trade and financial flows. Calibrated with conventional parameter values, the stochastic stationary equilibrium of the model with limited borrowing can account for about two-thirds of the global dispersion of current accounts. The easing of financial frictions can explain nearly all changes in the current account dispersion in the past four decades whereas the easing of trade frictions has almost no impact on the current account dispersion.