Financial And Current Account Interrelationship : An Empirical Test

Theoretically, financial account (FA) serves as a means of financing deficit in a country’s current account (CA). With the outburst of the rapid globalization and the liberalization of the capital markets, the function of FA could be a major cause of CA instability. This study empirically investigat...

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Main Authors: Lau, Evan, FU, Nelson
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Language:English
Published: ASERS Publishing 2011
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description Theoretically, financial account (FA) serves as a means of financing deficit in a country’s current account (CA). With the outburst of the rapid globalization and the liberalization of the capital markets, the function of FA could be a major cause of CA instability. This study empirically investigates the interrelationship between CA and the components of FA for the four crisis-affected Asian countries of Indonesia, Korea, the Philippines and Thailand. Empirical results show that deficit in CA mirror the surplus in FA supporting the theoretical foundation of balance of payment (BOP). We observed CA Granger causes FA suggesting that CA can be used as the control policy variable for the flows of capital in these countries. Therefore, the innovation of CA (whether deficit or surplus) would be important information for the liberalization and globalization of FA.
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spelling unimas-16312022-03-22T02:27:23Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/1631/ Financial And Current Account Interrelationship : An Empirical Test Lau, Evan FU, Nelson AC Collections. Series. Collected works HG Finance Theoretically, financial account (FA) serves as a means of financing deficit in a country’s current account (CA). With the outburst of the rapid globalization and the liberalization of the capital markets, the function of FA could be a major cause of CA instability. This study empirically investigates the interrelationship between CA and the components of FA for the four crisis-affected Asian countries of Indonesia, Korea, the Philippines and Thailand. Empirical results show that deficit in CA mirror the surplus in FA supporting the theoretical foundation of balance of payment (BOP). We observed CA Granger causes FA suggesting that CA can be used as the control policy variable for the flows of capital in these countries. Therefore, the innovation of CA (whether deficit or surplus) would be important information for the liberalization and globalization of FA. ASERS Publishing 2011 Article NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/1631/1/evan.pdf Lau, Evan and FU, Nelson (2011) Financial And Current Account Interrelationship : An Empirical Test. Journal of Applied Economic Sciences, 6 (15). pp. 34-42. ISSN 2393-5162 https://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=1011
spellingShingle AC Collections. Series. Collected works
HG Finance
Lau, Evan
FU, Nelson
Financial And Current Account Interrelationship : An Empirical Test
title Financial And Current Account Interrelationship : An Empirical Test
title_full Financial And Current Account Interrelationship : An Empirical Test
title_fullStr Financial And Current Account Interrelationship : An Empirical Test
title_full_unstemmed Financial And Current Account Interrelationship : An Empirical Test
title_short Financial And Current Account Interrelationship : An Empirical Test
title_sort financial and current account interrelationship : an empirical test
topic AC Collections. Series. Collected works
HG Finance
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/1631/
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http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/1631/1/evan.pdf