On The Sustainability of the EUs Current Account Deficits

In this paper, we test for the stationarity of EU current account deficits. Our testing strategy addresses two key concerns with regard to unit root panel data testing, namely (i) the identification of which members-states are stationary, and (ii) the presence of cross-sectional dependence. For this...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Otero Cardona, Jesús Gilberto, Holmes, Mark J.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:Colombia
Institución:Universidad del Rosario
Repositorio:Repositorio EdocUR - U. Rosario
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repository.urosario.edu.co:10336/28411
Acceso en línea:https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/28411
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Heterogeneous dynamic panels
Current account sustainability
Mean reversion
Panel stationarity test
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Sumario:In this paper, we test for the stationarity of EU current account deficits. Our testing strategy addresses two key concerns with regard to unit root panel data testing, namely (i) the identification of which members-states are stationary, and (ii) the presence of cross-sectional dependence. For this purpose, we employ a moving block bootstrap approach to the Hadri (2000) test. While there is evidence that current account sustainability applies to panels comprising EU members, this is not the case when non-EU economies are considered.