Arbeitspapier

Net foreign assets, real exchange rates and net exports revisited

Theory suggests a significant positive relationship in long-run equilibrium between net foreign assets (NFA) as a proportion of GDP and real exchange rates. Empirical tests have ignored two issues: the large variation in cross-country trade/GDP ratios, which is likely to induce substantial cross-country differences in coefficients, and the reverse causality associated with valuation effects. A real exchange rate appreciation reduces the absolute value of NFA denominated in foreign currency relative to domestic GDP, because of the sizeable component of non-tradable goods in domestic GDP. This endogeneity biases the test results. New tests are implemented that address these issues. The valuation effect bias is found to be significant. The new tests support the existence of a long-run positive relationship between NFA and real exchange rates. The long-run negative relationship between NFA and net exports that existed before 1992 has broken down in the period of persistent global imbalances.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CREDIT Research Paper ; No. 13/04

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Foreign Exchange
Thema
current account
exchange rates
net foreign assets
trade balance

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Bleaney, Michael
Tian, Mo
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The University of Nottingham, Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade (CREDIT)
(wo)
Nottingham
(wann)
2013

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Bleaney, Michael
  • Tian, Mo
  • The University of Nottingham, Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade (CREDIT)

Entstanden

  • 2013

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