Current Accounts : What Is Their Relevance for Economic Policymaking? /

This paper surveys the main theoretical approaches for analyzing movements in the current account of the balance of payments, from the Mundell-Fleming paradigm to modern intertemporal approaches. It discusses the main implications of these analyses for policymaking, highlighting that modern economic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scacciavillani, Fabio
Other Authors: Knight, Malcolm
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1998.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1998/071
Online Access:Full text available on IMF