What Determines the Current Account? : A Cross-Sectional and Panel Approach /

This paper uses cross-section and panel data to examine the determinants of the current account. The empirics find a significant impact of the stage of development and demographic factors in the cross section. Estimating partial-adjustment and error-correction models using panel data, the paper find...

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Автор: Faruqee, Hamid
Інші автори: Debelle, Guy
Формат: Журнал
Мова:English
Опубліковано: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1996.
Серія:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1996/058
Онлайн доступ:Full text available on IMF
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