The Current Account in Perspective : Lessons from the Italian Experience.

This paper draws some lessons about policies toward the current account from Italy's balance of payments history between 1960 and 1988. The key role of speculative capital flows during every major episode of external imbalance brings out the limitations of exchange rate rules that focus exclusi...

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Ente Autore: International Monetary Fund
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1990.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1990/037
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF