The Role of Stock Markets in Current Account Dynamics: Evidence from the United States

May 1, 2003

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Benoît Mercereau. The Role of Stock Markets in Current Account Dynamics: Evidence from the United States, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2003) accessed September 29, 2024

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Summary

This paper tests a model of the role of stock markets in current account dynamics, developed in a companion paper. With U.S. data, the model performs better than the same model without stock markets. An insight given by the model is that the current account might help predict future stock market performance. This property receives some preliminary empirical confirmation. The results also suggest that stock markets matter to the current account dynamics.

Subject: Balance of payments, Consumption, Current account, Financial institutions, Financial markets, Futures markets, National accounts, Stock markets, Stocks

Keywords: Consumption, Consumption literature, Current account, Current account data, Current account development, Current account dynamics, Current account granger, Equation of the current account, Forecasting, Fundamental equation, Futures markets, Global, Net income, Savings choice, Stock markets, Stocks, U.S. data, WP

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35
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Working Paper No. 2003/108
Stock No:

WPIEA1082003
ISBN:

9781451853124
ISSN:

1018-5941

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