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Globalization, Gluts, Innovation or Irrationality: What Explains the Easy Financing of the U.S. Current Account Deficit?

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Ravi Balakrishnan
Volodymyr Tulin
Tamim Bayoumi

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This paper examines the roles of U.S. financial innovation, financial globalization, and the savings glut hypothesis in explaining the rise in U.S. external debt, first in a portfolio balance model, and then empirically. Perhaps surprisingly, financial deepening and falling home bias in industrialized countries explain a large share of external financing. The savings glut hypothesis (including difficult-to-track petrodollar recycling) and U.S. financial innovation are also important, in part as a cause of declining home bias in industrialized countries. The latter underscores the importance of not looking at these factors in isolation, but rather as a constellation of forces that can be self-reinforcing.

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Paper provided by International Monetary Fund in its series IMF Working Papers with number 07/160.

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Date of creation: 13 Jul 2007
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Keywords: Working Paper ; Current account ; United States ; External debt ; Deficit financing ; Financial instruments ; Globalization ; Savings ; Economic models ;

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