Accounting for Global Dispersion of Current Accounts

By Jaewoo Lee, Yongsung Chang, Sun-Bin Kim

December 1, 2009

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Jaewoo Lee, Yongsung Chang, and Sun-Bin Kim. Accounting for Global Dispersion of Current Accounts, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2009) accessed December 3, 2024

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Summary

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.

Subject: Current account, Current account balance, Current account imbalances, Foreign assets, Trade balance

Keywords: Financial market, Interest rate, WP

Publication Details

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33
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Working Paper No. 2009/276
Stock No:

WPIEA2009276
ISBN:

9781451874211
ISSN:

1018-5941

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