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Income inequality and Germany's current account surplus

Grüning, Patrick; Theobald, Thomas; Treeck, Till van - 2015

Als Deutschland dem Eurosystem beitrat, zeigte die Leistungsbilanz ein Defizit. Seit über einer Dekade jedoch hat die … diskutierten Ursachen wurde die Verbesserung der deutschen Leistungsbilanz von starken Veränderungen in der personellen und noch … deutlicher in der funktionalen Einkommensverteilung begleitet. In diesem Papier argumentieren wir, dass Veränderungen der …

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Macroeconomic effects of personal and functional income inequality : theory and empirical evidence for the US and Germany

Prante, Franz J. - 2017

This paper presents a simple illustrative post-Kaleckian model of distribution and growth that incorporates personal income inequality and interdependent social norms. The model shows in an easily accessible manner how personal and functional income inequality can potentially have contrary...

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Current account imbalances and income inequality: theory and evidence

Al-Hussami, Fares; Remesal, Álvaro Martín - 2012

In this paper we analyze theoretically and empirically the impact of an increase in income inequality on the current account balance. We develop a model with consumption externalities and heterogeneous agents which explains how an increase in income inequality can affect negatively or positively...

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Predictable Life-Cycle Shocks, Income Risk and Consumption Inequality

Primiceri, Giorgio E. - 2006

Was the increase in income inequality in the US due to permanent shocks or merely to an increase in the variance of transitory shocks? The implications for consumption and welfare depend crucially on the answer to this question. We use CEX repeated cross-section data on consumption and income to...

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Are the current accounts of Asian-5 economies mean-reverting? : new evidence from Fourier panel stationarity tests

Husein, Jamal; Kara, S. Murat; Pier, Chuck - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-11

This study offers a novel examination of the mean-reversion properties of the current account balances, expressed as a percentage of GDP, for the Asian-5 economies: Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand. While prior studies mainly employed traditional unit-root tests, our...

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Sudden stop regimes and output : a Markov switching analysis

Bachmann, Andreas; Leist, Stefan - 2013

Sudden stops in capital inflows were a main characteristic of the emerging market crisis during the 1990's. Concerns about them have recurred in the light of recently increased global stability risk and the quantitative easing that led to substantial capital inflows in emerging economies. We add...

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Sovereign default risk premia and state-dependent twin deficits : conference paper

Hürtgen, Patrick; Rühmkorf, Ronald - 2013 - This version: August 7, 2013

This paper studies the impact of the state-dependent risk of a government default on the correlation of the scal balance and current account. We use a small open economy model where nonlinear risk premia arise endogenously when the government operates close to its scal limit, i.e. the maximum...

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Do We Really Know that Flexible Exchange Rates Facilitate Current Account Adjustment?

Herrmann, Sabine - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between the exchange rate regime and the pace of current account adjustment. The panel data set we refer to includes 11 catching-up countries from central, eastern and south-eastern Europe between 1994 and 2007. The exchange rate regime is measured by a...

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FX dealer constraints and external imbalances

Boer, Jantke de; Eichler, Stefan - 2024

We empirically test Gabaix and Maggiori (2015)’s prediction that currencies are repriced by the country’s external capital dependence when financial constraints of FX intermediaries change. Using solvency indicators, we develop a novel intermediary constraints index capturing riskbearing...

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The role of exchange rate for current account: a panel data analysis

Vieira, Flavio Vilela; MacDonald, Ronald - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 21 (2020) 1, pp. 57-72

The goal of this paper is to address the role of the real effective exchange rate (fundamentals, misalignment and volatility) for the current account using a panel data analysis for a set of 58 countries, over the period of 1994-2014. The results suggest that exchange rate misalignment is...

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