Communaute economique et monetaire de l'Afrique centrale (CEMAC) : Questions generales.

We use a cross-country panel framework to analyze the effect of net official flows (chiefly foreign exchange intervention) on current accounts. We find that net official flows have a large but plausible effect on current account balances. The estimated effects are larger with instrumental variables...

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Autor Corporativo: International Monetary Fund. African Dept
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2014.
Series:IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ; No. 2014/305
Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF
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