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Consumption-Based Interest Rate and the Present-Value Model of the Current Account—Evidence from Nigeria

By Olumuyiwa S Adedeji

August 1, 2001

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Olumuyiwa S Adedeji. Consumption-Based Interest Rate and the Present-Value Model of the Current Account—Evidence from Nigeria, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2001) accessed October 8, 2024
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This paper presents a model of current account determination, based upon the permanent-income hypothesis. A present-value relationship among the current account, changes in net output, the exchange rate and the terms of trade is derived and the implications of such a relationship are tested using data for Nigeria during 1960-97. This paper presents a model of current account determination, based upon the permanent-income hypothesis. A present-value relationship among the current account, changes in net output, the exchange rate and the terms of trade is derived and the implications of such a relationship are tested using data for Nigeria during 1960-97.

Subject: Balance of payments, Consumption, Current account, Current account balance, Financial services, International trade, National accounts, Real interest rates, Terms of trade

Keywords: Consumption, Consumption expenditure, Consumption-based interest rate, Current account, Current account balance, Current account determination, Global, Interest rate, Model of the current account, Nigeria, Optimal current account, Present-value model, Real interest rates, Terms of trade, Terms of trade change, Unintended terms of trade shock, Utility function, World interest rate, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    29

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2001/093

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0932001

  • ISBN:

    9781451851656

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941