Medium-Term Determinants of Current Accounts in Industrial and Developing Countries : An Empirical Exploration

This paper provides an empirical investigation of the medium-term determinants of current accounts for a large sample of industrial and developing countries. The analysis is based on a structural approach that highlights the roles of the fundamental macroeconomic determinants of saving and investment. Cross-section and panel regression techniques are used to characterize the properties of current account variation across countries and over time. Current account balances are positively correlated with government budget balances and initial stocks of net foreign assets. Among developing countries, measures of financial deepening are positively correlated while indicators of openness to international trade are negatively correlated with current account balances.
Publication date: February 2000
ISBN: 9781451846546
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Money and Monetary Policy , Money and Monetary Policy , International - Economics , International - Economics , Current account variation , structural and macroeconomic determinants , saving-investment balance , current accounts , current account balances , current account deficits , budget balance

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