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  "title": "On Cyclicality in the Current and Financial Accounts: Evidence from Nine Industrial Countries",
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  "summary": "The paper investigates cyclical fluctuations in the current and financial (formerly capital) accounts of the balance of payments and major underlying components for nine industrial countries.",
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      "content": "- The empirical model uses as explanatory variables:\n  - domestic output growth\n  - price inflation\n  - real exchange rate fluctuations\n  - energy price inflation\n  - global growth\n  - regional growth"
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      "content": "- Evidence from the estimation of the model indicates the importance of fluctuations in output growth to the cyclicality of the current and financial account balances.\n- \"The necessary and sufficient condition to sustain a large current account deficit is high domestic growth, which tends to stimulate financial inflows and provides adequate resources for financing.\"\n- Other factors appear to be less important to the cyclicality of the current and financial account balances and their negative correlations."
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    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451860757.001",
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    "Other factors appear to be less important to the cyclicality of the current and financial account balances and their negative correlations.",
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