Bootstrap panel granger-causality between government budget and external deficits for the EU

Christophe Rault and Antonio Afonso

Economics Bulletin, 2009, vol. 29, issue 2, 1027-1034

Abstract: We investigate the existence of Granger-causality between current account and government budget balances over the period 1970-2007, for different EU and OECD country groupings. We use a panel-data approach based on SUR systems and Wald tests with country specific bootstrap critical values. Our results show a causal relation from budget deficits to current account deficits for several EU countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Italy, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, and Slovakia, along the lines of the so-called twin-deficit relationship. Considering the effective real exchange rate in the SUR system does not substantially alter the results.

Keywords: panel causality tests; budget deficit; external imbalance; real exchange rates (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E6 F3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-05-17
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