Current Account Dynamics: The Role of Real Shocks

International Monetary Fund

No 1989/080, IMF Working Papers from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: This paper demonstrates how a full-blown optimizing model of the dynamics of the current account can be reduced to a small-scale collection of reduced-form relations capable of implementing a rich set of macro-economic simulations. Emphasizing the role of shocks to productivity, labor employment, world rate of interest, and tax revenues the analysis can account for movements in trade imbalances, and the decline in private saving and investment observed recently in developed open economies.

Keywords: WP; private sector; rate of interest; capital stock; labor employment; current-account dynamics; private-sector current-account surplus; current account position; wealth accumulation; productivity change; private-sector current account; current-account analysis; consumption function; productivity shock; Current account; Consumption; Productivity; Employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 54
Date: 1989-01-01
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