External Adjustment and the Global Crisis /

After widening substantially in the period preceding the global financial crisis, current account imbalances across the world have contracted to a significant extent. This paper analyzes the factors underlying this process of external adjustment. It finds that countries whose pre-crisis current acco...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Milesi-Ferretti, Gian
Other Authors: Lane, Philip
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2011.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2011/197
Online Access:Full text available on IMF