International Competitiveness and the Balance of Payments: Do Current Account Deficits and Surpluses Matter? - Hardcover

Dluhosch, Barbara; Freytag, Andreas; Kruger, Malte

 
9781858982106: International Competitiveness and the Balance of Payments: Do Current Account Deficits and Surpluses Matter?
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ISBN 10: 1858982103 ISBN 13: 9781858982106
Verlag: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 1996

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How can the notion of competitiveness be reasonably applied to an economy? What relation does high or low competitiveness have to the current account? Do huge and persistent imbalances really reflect competitive positions of local firms or are they merely due to a misalignment of exchange rates or even outright protectionism, as the US-Japan trade conflict suggests?

All these questions are rigorously addressed in International Competitiveness and the Balance of Payments. In examining the determinants of current account balances the conventional competitiveness approach - in which deficits are assumed to indicate low competitiveness - is contrasted with an intertemporal view of the balance of payments. By emphasizing locational quality as the decisive factor in international competitiveness, the authors are able to offer fundamentally different conclusions about the determinants of current account debates.

As well as theoretical evidence advocating the intertemporal view, the authors present four case studies in support of this approach: Germany before and after unification, Spain before joining the EMS, the United States since the early 1980s, and Japan's persistent current account surpluses.

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Barbara Dluhosch, Institute for Economic Policy, University of the Federal Armed Forces, Germany, Andreas Freytag, Professor of Economics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany and University of Stellenbosch, South Africa and Malte Krüger, University of Aschaffenburg, Germany

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Verlag
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1858982103
ISBN 13 
9781858982106
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Anzahl der Seiten
235
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