The monetary approach to the balance of payments postulates a unidirectional, negative causality running from domestic credit to net foreign assets. Using data for Fiji for the period 1974-2003, we find a statistically significant, negative correlation between domestic credit and net foreign...

The degree of competition affects the current account response to nominal shocks. The mechanism hinges on the relationship between the mark-up and the degree of real rigidity of prices. In a model with intermediate goods, the degree of real rigidity increases in the mark-up. A weaker response of...

Die Arbeit untersucht, unter welchen Umständen das von makroökonomischen Fundamentalvariablen losgelöste und damit scheinbar irrationale Imitationsverhalten von Devisenmarktteilnehmern zu Zahlungsbilanzkrisen führen kann. In einem eigens entworfenen stochastischen Modell des Beharrungs- und...

Based on China''s experience between 1980 and 2002, a cointegrated vector autoregression model was established to explore the relationships among real interest rates, real exchange rates and balance of payments in China. Taking into account institutional changes, the empirical study shows that...

This paper explores empirically the role of risk and return in the observed evolution of net foreign asset positions of industrial and developing economies. The paper adopts a dynamic approach in which investors' portfolios adjust gradually to their long-run equilibrium, defined by a standard...