Current Account Imbalances in AsEAN Countries : Are they a Problem? /
Applying a consumption-smoothing model to five ASEAN countries reveals that excessive private consumption has not tended to characterize their widening external imbalances in recent years, except to a small degree in Indonesia and Malaysia. Beyond consumption smoothing, however, a number of factors...
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Format: | Journal |
Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
1997.
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Series: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
No. 1997/051 |
Online Access: | Full text available on IMF |