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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826317803321

Autore

Funke Katja

Titolo

Does fiscal policy matter for the trade account? : a panel cointegration study / / Katja Funke and Christiane Nickel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : International Monetary Fund, Middle East and Central Asia Dept., c2006

ISBN

1-4623-1549-6

1-4519-9137-1

1-283-51237-8

1-4527-0248-9

9786613824820

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (27 p.)

Collana

IMF working paper ; ; WP/06/147

Altri autori (Persone)

NickelChristiane

Soggetti

Balance of trade - Econometric models

Demand (Economic theory) - Econometric models

Expenditures, Public - Econometric models

Fiscal policy - Econometric models

Imports - Econometric models

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.