Globalization, Gluts, Innovation or Irrationality : What Explains the Easy Financing of the U.S. Current Account Deficit? /
This paper examines the roles of U.S. financial innovation, financial globalization, and the savings glut hypothesis in explaining the rise in U.S. external debt, first in a portfolio balance model, and then empirically. Perhaps surprisingly, financial deepening and falling home bias in industrializ...
Hoofdauteur: | |
---|---|
Andere auteurs: | , |
Formaat: | Tijdschrift |
Taal: | English |
Gepubliceerd in: |
Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
2007.
|
Reeks: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
No. 2007/160 |
Online toegang: | Full text available on IMF |