On the Stationarity of Current Account Deficits in the European Union

Serie

• Discussion Paper Series

Resumen

• In this paper, we test for the stationarity of EU current account deficits. Our testing strategy addresses two key concerns with regard to unit root panel data testing, namely (i) the identification of which panel members are stationary, and (ii) the presence of cross-sectional dependence. For this purpose, we employ an AR-based bootstrap approach to the Hadri (2000) test. While there is only mixed evidence that current account stationarity applies when examining individual countries, this does not appear to be case when considering panels comprising both EU and non-EU members.

autores

• Holmes, Mark
• Otero, Jesús
• Panagiotidis, Theodore

fecha de publicación

• 2009-12

Área temática

• C33 - Modelos de ecuaciones múltiples/simultáneas; Variables múltiples: Modelos con datos de panel; Modelos espacio-temporales
• F32 - Ajustes de la balanza por cuenta corriente; Movimientos de capital a corto plazo
• F41 - Macroeconomía de la economía abierta

Enfoque geográfico

• Colombia  Country

Líneas de investigación

• Current Account Stationarity
• Heterogeneous Dynamic Panels
• Mean Reversion
• Panel Stationarity Test

Issue

• 2009_18