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| Tekijä: | Obstfeld, M. |
| Otsikko: | External adjustments |
| Lehti: | Review of World Economics
2004 : VOL. 140:4, p. 541-568 |
| Asiasana: | Balance of payments Capital flows Diversification Foreign investment |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | Gross stocks of foreign assets have increased rapidly relative to national outputs since 1990, and the short-run capital gains and losses on those assets can amount to significant fractions of GDP. Thse fluctuations in asset values render the national income and product account measure of the current account balance increasingly inadequate as a summary of the change in a country's net foreign assets. Nonetheless, unusually large current account imbalances, especially deficits, should remain high on policymakers' list of concerns, even for the richer and less credit-constrained countries. Extreme imbalances signal the need for large and perhaps abrupt real exchange rate changes in the future, changes that might have undesired political and financial consequences given the incompleteness of domestic and international asset markets. Furthermore, the two sources of the change in net foreign assests - the current account and the capital gain on the net foreign asset position - the former is better understood and more amenable to policy influence. |
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