A Global Perspective on External Positions

Philip Lane and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti ()

No 11589, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: The paper highlights the increased dispersion in net external positions in recent years, particularly among industrial countries. It provides a simple accounting framework that disentangles the factors driving the accumulation of external assets and liabilities (such as trade imbalances, investment income flows, and capital gains) for major external creditors and debtors. It also examines the factors driving the foreign asset portfolio of international investors, with a special focus on the weight of U.S. liabilities in the rest of the world's stock of external assets. Finally, it relates the empirical evidence to the current debate about the roles of portfolio balance effects and exchange rate adjustment in shaping the external adjustment process.

JEL-codes: F31 F32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-09
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Published as A Global Perspective on External Positions , Philip R. Lane, Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti. in G7 Current Account Imbalances: Sustainability and Adjustment , Clarida. 2007

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