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14 A Dynamic Error-Correction Model of the U.S. Current Account »
Source: The United States Economy : Performance and Issues
Series: Books
Author(s): Yusuke Horiguchi
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 January 1992
ISBN: 9781557752314
Keywords: health care, exchange rates, social security, equation, unemployment
Conventional models of the U.S. current account, which express trade flows as functions of activity variables and relative prices, have recently been criticized on the grounds that they fail to...

“A Quantitative Examination of Current Account Dynamics in Equilibrium Models of Barter Economies” »
Source: Working Paper Summaries (WP/92/1 - WP/92/47)
Volume/Issue: 1992/58
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 August 1992
ISBN: 9781451966480
Keywords: foreign currency, currency substitution, exchange rate, rational expectations
The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, inclu...

Accounting for Global Dispersion of Current Accounts* »
Source: Accounting for Global Dispersion of Current Accounts
Volume/Issue: 2009/276
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Jaewoo Lee , Yongsung Chang , and Sun-Bin Kim
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 December 2009
ISBN: 9781451874211
Keywords: Distribution of Current Account, Incomplete Markets, Frictions, current accounts, current account imbalances, current account balances, current account deficit,
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...

Altruism and Workers' Remittances »
Source: Altruism and Workers' Remittances : Evidence from Selected Countries in the Middle East and Central Asia
Volume/Issue: 2006/130
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Jacques Bouhga-Hagbe
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 May 2006
ISBN: 9781451863901
Keywords: altruism, co-integration, cointegration, equation, workers ? remittances, equations, Household Behavior: General, Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production
Workers' remittances have been playing an increasingly important role in the balance of payments of many countries and can significantly contribute to the strength of their external positions. Assessing the likely...

Anticipating Balance of Payments Crises--The Role of Early Warning Systems : The Role of Early Warning Systems »
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Catherine Pattillo , Andrew Berg , Gian Milesi-Ferretti , and Eduardo Borensztein
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 24 January 2000
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781557758286.084
ISBN: 9781557758286
Keywords: currency crises, probability, balance of payments, contagion, currency crisis
Recent years have witnessed an increase in the frequency of currency and balance of payments crises in developing countries. More important, the crises have become more virulent, have caused widespread disruption t...

Appendix Capital Flight and Capital Controls »
Source: Liberalization of the Capital Account : Experiences and Issues
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Liliana Rojas-Suárez , and Donald Mathieson
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 March 1993
ISBN: 9781557752802
Keywords: capital controls, exchange rate, capital account convertibility, capital flows, capital inflows
t equal stock of wealth at time t, then the analysis in the main text suggests that desired holdings of domestic (DA) and foreign (CF) assets...

Appendix II. Behavior of Different Types of Financial Flow »
Source: Country Insurance : The Role of Domestic Policies
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Paolo Mauro , Torbjorn Becker , Jonathan Ostry , Romain Ranciere , and Olivier Jeanne
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 10 April 2007
ISBN: 9781589066076
Keywords: Insurance supervision, Insurance legislation, Insurance regulations, bonds, international reserves, domestic currency, currency crises, international financial
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Appendix II Foreign Direct Investment »
Source: The Lao People's Democratic Republic : Systemic Transformation and Adjustment
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Ichiro Otani , and Chi Pham
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 May 1996
ISBN: 9781557755605
Keywords: banking, exchange rate, foreign exchange, privatization, foreign investment
The reform strategy implemented in the Lao P.D.R. since 1985 has recognized the importance of external resources—both official and private—in accelerating economic transformation and in emulatin...

Appendix 6: Measuring the Impact of Relative Price Changes on the Current Account Balance »
Source: Changing Patterns of Global Trade
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s): Nagwa Riad , Luca Errico , Christian Henn , Christian Saborowski , Mika Saito , and Jarkko Turunen
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 09 January 2012
ISBN: 9781616352073
Keywords: Emerging markets, Developed countries, International trade, Trade integration, supply chain, gross exports, trade flows, global trade, technology exports
Appendix 2 are fed back into the current account balance relative to GDP in two ways. First a fall in exports in each sector for example would lead to a fall in the DVA by a cert...

4 Arab Capital Flows: Recent Trends and Policy Implications »
Source: Economic Development of the Arab Countries : Selected Issues
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 May 1993
ISBN: 9781557753328
Keywords: fdi, balance of payments, foreign investors, natural resources
International financial intermediation since the mid-eighties has made an enormous leap in apparent efficiency going hand in hand with the unprecedented explosion of cross-border capital flows,...