Current Accounts and Exchange Rates: A New Look at the Evidence

Greg Leonard and Alan Stockman

No 8361, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper 'goes back to basics' in empirical analysis of the J-Curve. First, we document strong violations in the distributional assumptions that underlie nearly all previous work on this issue. Second, we employ distribution-free, non-parametric statistical tests to characterize the data and summarize the key relationships between real exchange rates, the current account, and real GDP. We find some (weak) evidence of a J-Curve in the data. Interestingly, however, we document that this evidence is not consistent with the standard theoretical explanation of the J-Curve. Consequently, our empirical results pose a strong challenge for international economic theory.

JEL-codes: F4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-07
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Published as Leonard, Greg and Alan C. Stockman. "Current Accounts And Exchange Rates: A New Look At The Evidence," Review of International Economics, 2002, v10(3,Aug), 483-496.

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