On the Solvency of Nations : Are Global Imbalances Consistent with Intertemporal Budget Constraints? /

Theory predicts that a nation's stochastic intertemporal budget constraint is satisfied if net exports (NX) and net foreign assets (NFA) satisfy an error-correction specification with a residual integrated of any finite order. We test this hypothesis using data for 21 industrial and 29 emerging...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mendoza, Enrique
Other Authors: Durdu, Ceyhun Bora, Terrones, Marco
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2010.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2010/050
Online Access:Full text available on IMF