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Global Imbalances and Petrodollars

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  • Fuad Hasanov
  • Rabah Arezki

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Oil exporters have run large current account surpluses. We explore oil exporters' role in our understanding and the resolution of global imbalances. Current account dynamics are estimated for oil-exporting countries and the rest of the world. We find that fiscal policy has a much stronger effect on current account of oil exporters than on current account of other countries. The current account adjustment of oil-exporting countries is also faster than that of other countries. We conclude that a change in fiscal policy of oil exporters can have significant and speedy impact on global imbalances.

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Date of creation: 01 Apr 2009
Handle: RePEc:imf:imfwpa:09/89
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Keywords: Current account surpluses; Current account; Global imbalances; Fiscal policy; Oil prices; Oil exporting countries; Oil revenues; Payments imbalances; Oil exporters; exporters; exporting countries; oil-exporting countries; terms of trade;

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