On the sustainability of current account deficits: evidence from four ASEAN countries

This paper examines the sustainability of the current account imbalance for four ASEAN countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand) over the 1961-1999 period. To this end, we utilize the intertemporal budget constraint (IBC) model to explain the behavior of the current account in th...

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Main Authors: Evan, Lau, Ahmad Zubaidi, Baharumshah, Stilianos, Fountas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: North-Holland 2002
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Online Access:http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/7138/
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/7138/1/On%20the%20sustainability%20of%20current.pdf