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Record Nr.

UNINA9910965895703321

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

9786612844638

9781462394098

1462394094

9781452738956

1452738955

9781282844636

1282844636

9781451874211

1451874219

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

Balance of payments

Balance of trade

Current Account Adjustment

Current account balance

Current account imbalances

Current account

Empirical Studies of Trade

Exports and Imports

Foreign assets

International economics

International Investment

Investments, Foreign

Long-term Capital Movements

Short-term Capital Movements

Trade balance

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.