The relationship between fiscal and current account imbalances in OECD economies

This study re-examines the nexus between the fiscal balance and the current account balance for 18 OECD countries for the period 1995Q1 to 2018Q1 using panel cointegration, and panel vector autoregressive (VAR) methods. Our results indicate that a strengthening in the fiscal balance by one percentag...

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Main Author: Afonso, António (author)
Other Authors: Opoku, Philemon Kwame (author)
Format: workingPaper
Language:eng
Published: 2018
Subjects:
Fiscal imbalances
Current account
Twin-deficit
Panel analysis
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/16429
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:www.repository.utl.pt:10400.5/16429

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/16429

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