COINTEGRATION EVIDENCES FROM THE NEW FRAGILE FIVE

Gülgün ÇİĞDEM () and Merve Altaylar ()
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Gülgün ÇİĞDEM: İstanbul Gelişim University
Merve Altaylar: Dokuz Eylül University

JOURNAL OF LIFE ECONOMICS, 2020, vol. 7, issue 3, 269-282

Abstract: Purpose of this study is to test the association between savings and current account deficit of the “New Fragile Five†falling into critical cycle. 1994-2019 period annual national savings, current account balance and external debt have been analyzed within the framework of panel data analysis. At the modeling stage of the research focused on the cointegration relationship. Panel cointegration tests with structural breaks based on LM were used. To examine the unique economic structures of countries, heterogeneous estimating techniques were employed. The research has four important findings; i.There is a cointegration relationship between indicators, ii.The external debt increases the current account deficit, iii.The increase of savings in Turkey decreases the current account deficit, iv.An increase in savings increases the current account deficit in Argentina, Egypt, Pakistan and Qatar. This study, which will contribute to the expansion of typology, is also contributory to the “Triple Deficit Hypothesisâ€

Keywords: Current Account Deficit; Savings; Triple Deficit; Heterogeneous Panel; Cointegration with Structural Breaks; Unit Root with Structural Breaks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 C52 E21 E42 F32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.15637/jlecon.7.020

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