Medium-Term Determinants of Current Accounts in Industrial and Developing Countries: An Empirical Exploration

February 1, 2000

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Menzie David Chinn, and Eswar S Prasad. Medium-Term Determinants of Current Accounts in Industrial and Developing Countries: An Empirical Exploration, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2000) accessed October 13, 2024

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Summary

This paper provides an empirical investigation of the medium-term determinants of current accounts for a large sample of industrial and developing countries. The analysis is based on a structural approach that highlights the roles of the fundamental macroeconomic determinants of saving and investment. Cross-section and panel regression techniques are used to characterize the properties of current account variation across countries and over time. Current account balances are positively correlated with government budget balances and initial stocks of net foreign assets. Among developing countries, measures of financial deepening are positively correlated while indicators of openness to international trade are negatively correlated with current account balances.

Subject: Balance of payments, Current account, Current account balance, Current account deficits, International trade, National accounts, Personal income, Terms of trade

Keywords: Africa, Budget balance, Current account, Current account balance, Current account deficits, Current account determination, Current account dynamics, Current account position, Current account sustainability, Current account variation, Developing country, Developing country sample, GDP, GDP ratio, Personal income, Result, Saving-investment balance, Structural and macroeconomic determinants, Terms of trade, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

39
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Series:

Working Paper No. 2000/046
Stock No:

WPIEA0462000
ISBN:

9781451846546
ISSN:

1018-5941

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