Does the Current Account Matter?

By S. Edwards. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance

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On the sustainability of current account deficits: evidence from four ASEAN countries (2003, background): “Kaminsky et al (1998) and Edwards (2001) provide empirical evidence that large current account deficits increase the probability of a country experiencing a currency crisis.”
On the Empirics of Sudden Stops: The Relevance of Balance-Sheet Effects (2004, unknown): “Inter-American Development Bank Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) Research Department Departamento de Investigación Working Paper #509”
Do Workers' Remittances Reduce the Probability of Current Account Reversals? (2005, background): “Most of the empirical work has focused on currency crises (Frankel and Rose, 1996; Kaminsky and Reinhart, 1999; Edwards, 2001; Arteta, 2003), which relate to large nominal currency depreciation.”
Testing Twin Deficits Hypothesis using VARs and Variance Decomposition (2006, background): “Several authors have addressed this issue from the point of view of macroeconomic stability (e.g. Edwards, 2001).”
Financial Openness, Sudden Stops and Current Account Reversals (2004, background): “Edwards (2002), on the other hand, used dynamic panel regressions and concluded that major current account reversals had a negative effect on investment, and on GDP per capita growth, even after controlling for investment.”
Thirty Years of Current Account Imbalances, Current Account Reversals, and Sudden Stops (2004, methodology): “The analysis presented in this section differs from other work on the subject, and in particular from studies on current reversals such as Milesi-Ferreti and Razin (2000), Edwards (2002) and Guidotti et. al.”
Systemic Sudden Stops: The Relevance of Balance-Sheet Effects and Financial Integration (2008, unknown): “…literature has focused on alternative measures of crisis, whether currency crises (Frankel and Rose (1996), 10 Kaminsky and Reinhart (1999), 11 Edwards (2001), 12 Arteta (2003), Razin and Rubinstein (2004) 13 ) or current account reversals (Milesi-Ferretti and Razin (2000), Edwards (2003)).”