What Drives US Foreign Borrowing? Evidence on the External Adjustment to Transitory and Permanent Shocks

The joint dynamics of US net output, consumption, and (the market value of) foreign assets and liabilities, characterized empirically following Lettau and Ludvigson (2004), is shown to be consistent with current account theory. US consumption is virtually insulated from transitory shocks, while thes...

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Veröffentlicht in:The American economic review 2012-04, Vol.102 (2), p.1062-1092
Hauptverfasser: Corsetti, Giancarlo, Konstantinou, Panagiotis Th
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