Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/26604 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 2559
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We assess the cointegration relationship between current account and budget balances, and effective real exchange rates, using recent bootstrap panel cointegration techniques and SUR methods. We investigate the magnitude of the relationship between the two imbalances for each country for the period 1970-2007, and for different EU and OECD country groupings. The panel cointegration tests used allow for within and between correlation, while the SUR results show both positive and negative effects of budget balances on current account balances for several countries. The magnitude of the effects varies across countries, and there is no evidence pointing to a direct and close relationship between budgetary and current account balances.
Subjects: 
Budget balance
external balance
EU
panel cointegration
JEL: 
C23
E62
F32
H62
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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