Globalization, gluts, innovation or irrationality : what explains the easy financing of the U.S. current account deficit? /
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Author / Creator: | Balakrishnan, Ravi, author. |
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Imprint: | [Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, Western Hemisphere Dept., ©2007. |
Description: | 1 online resource (39 pages) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
Series: | IMF working paper, 2227-8885 ; WP/07/160 IMF working paper ; WP/07/160. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12496391 |
Other authors / contributors: | Bayoumi, Tamim A., author. Tulin, Volodymyr, author. International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Department. |
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ISBN: | 1283517027 9781283517027 1451911777 9781451911770 |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 37-39). Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record. |
Summary: | This paper examines the roles of U.S. financial innovation, financial globalization, and the savings glut hypothesis in explaining the rise in U.S. external debt, first in a portfolio balance model, and then empirically. Perhaps surprisingly, financial deepening and falling home bias in industrialized countries explain a large share of external financing. The savings glut hypothesis (including difficult-to-track petrodollar recycling) and U.S. financial innovation are also important, in part as a cause of declining home bias in industrialized countries. The latter underscores the importance of not looking at these factors in isolation, but rather as a constellation of forces that can be self-reinforcing. |
Other form: | Print version: Balakrishnan, Ravi. Globalization, gluts, innovation or irrationality. [Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, Western Hemisphere Dept., ©2007 |
Standard no.: | 10.5089/9781451911770.001 |
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