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The Determinants & Excessiveness of Current Account Deficits in Eastern Europe & the Former Soviet Union

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Aristovnik, Aleksander

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The article investigates the main factors of current account deficits in order to assess the potential excessiveness of current account deficits in selected countries of Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union. According to the simulated benchmark calculated on the basis of selected determinants (in period 1992-2003), the results confirm that the actual current account balances are generally close to their estimated levels in the 2000-2003 period in the transition region. This notion is in line with the intertemporal approach to the current account balance, suggesting that higher external deficits are a natural outcome when permanent domestic output exceeds the current one and when current investments and government consumption exceed their permanent levels. Hence, the results suggest that most countries in Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union are justified in running relatively high current account deficits.

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Paper provided by University Library of Munich, Germany in its series MPRA Paper with number 483.

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Publication status: Published in Transformations in Business & Economics 11.6(2007): pp. 32-52
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Keywords: transition countries; current account deficits; excessiveness; determinants; dynamic panel data;

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C33 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Models with Panel Data
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