On the Solvency of Nations: Are Global Imbalances Consistent with Intertemporal Budget Constraints?

By Enrique G. Mendoza, Marco Terrones, Ceyhun Bora Durdu

February 1, 2010

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Enrique G. Mendoza, Marco Terrones, and Ceyhun Bora Durdu. On the Solvency of Nations: Are Global Imbalances Consistent with Intertemporal Budget Constraints?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2010) accessed November 8, 2024

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Summary

Theory predicts that a nation's stochastic intertemporal budget constraint is satisfied if net exports (NX) and net foreign assets (NFA) satisfy an error-correction specification with a residual integrated of any finite order. We test this hypothesis using data for 21 industrial and 29 emerging economies for the 1970-2004 period to search for existence of negative relationship between NX and NFA. The results show that, despite the large global imbalances of recent years, NX and NFA positions are consistent with external solvency. Pooled Mean Group error-correction estimation yields evidence of a statistically significant, negative response of the NX-GDP ratio to the NFA-GDP ratio that is largely homogeneous across countries.

Subject: Emerging and frontier financial markets, Financial sector development, Foreign assets, Real interest rates, Solvency

Keywords: Null hypothesis, Real interest rate, Time series, WP

Publication Details

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39
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Working Paper No. 2010/050
Stock No:

WPIEA2010050
ISBN:

9781451963298
ISSN:

1018-5941

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