Contributions

  • Milesi-Ferretti, Gian Maria. - Contributor
  • National Bureau of Economic Research. - Contributor

Publication

2005 - National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

10,500 words, Guess

Page Count

42 pages

Identifiers

Description

"The paper highlights the increased dispersion in net external positions in recent years, particularly among industrial countries. It provides a simple accounting framework that disentangles the factors driving the accumulation of external assets and liabilities (such as trade imbalances, investment income flows, and capital gains) for major external creditors and debtors. It also examines the factors driving the foreign asset portfolio of international investors, with a special focus on the weight of U.S. liabilities in the rest of the world's stock of external assets. Finally, it relates the empirical evidence to the current debate about the roles of portfolio balance effects and exchange rate adjustment in shaping the external adjustment process"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • NBER working paper paper series -- no. 11589.
  • Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 11589.

Links

Other Editions

  • A global perspective on external positionsNational Bureau of Economic Research2005

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