Current Account Reversals and Currency Crises: Empirical Regularities

June 1, 1998

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Gian M Milesi-Ferretti, and Assaf Razin. Current Account Reversals and Currency Crises: Empirical Regularities, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1998) accessed December 26, 2024

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Summary

This paper studies large reductions in current account deficits and exchange rate depreciations in low- and middle-income countries. It examines which factors help predict the occurrence of a reversal or a currency crisis, and how these events affect macroeconomic performance. Both domestic factors, such as the low reserves, and external factors, such as unfavorable terms of trade, are found to trigger reversals and currency crises. The two types of events are, however, distinct; an exchange rate crash is associated with a fall in output growth and a recovery thereafter, while for reversals there is no systematic evidence of a growth slowdown.

Subject: Balance of payments, Currency crises, Current account, Current account balance, Current account deficits, Depreciation, Financial crises, National accounts

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Currency crash, Currency crises, Currency crisis, Currency crisis episode, Currency depreciation, Current account, Current account balance, Current account deficit, Current account deficits, Current account reversal, Depreciation, Depreciation vis-à-vis, East Asia, Growth, Real exchange rate, Terms of trade, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

44
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Working Paper No. 1998/089
Stock No:

WPIEA0891998
ISBN:

9781451952421
ISSN:

1018-5941

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