Age structure and the current account
Gudmundsson, G.S. and Zoega, Gylfi (2014) Age structure and the current account. Economics Letters 123 (2), pp. 183-186. ISSN 0165-1765.
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Abstract
We adjust current account surpluses and deficits of 57 countries in the period 2005–2009 for differences in the age structure of their populations and find that these differences can account for a significant part of the variation in the data. Among the large countries we find that the adjustment increases the surpluses of Germany and Japan while the surpluses of China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia are significantly diminished.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | Current account, Age structure, Life-cycle behavior |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Applied Macroeconomics, Birkbeck Centre for |
| Depositing User: | Gylfi Zoega |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Mar 2014 10:46 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:09 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/9274 |
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