Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/750 
Year of Publication: 
1991
Citation: 
[Publisher:] Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) [Place:] Kiel [Year:] 1991
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 495
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
This paper assesses the extent of international capital mobility in a time series context. It explores the possibility that the current account balance of different OECD-countries contains a unit root. It is shown that if the ratio of the current account balance to GDP is found to be integrated of the order of one, the country is likely to be part of the world capital market. The results for the whole period 1950-1988 indicate that the current account balance of at least Germany, Japan, and the United States contains a unit root. Considering the subperiods before and after 1972 it is shown that international capital mobility increased after the breakdown of the Bretton Woods System.
Subjects: 
International capital mobility
current account adjustment
unit root tests
JEL: 
F21
F32
Document Type: 
Working Paper
Document Version: 
Digitized Version

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