Accounting for Global Dispersion of Current Accounts /

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 mode...

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Autor principal: Lee, Jaewoo
Outros Autores: Chang, Yongsung, Kim, Sun-Bin
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009.
Colecção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2009/276
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF
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Resumo: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.
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