IMF Working Papers

Robustness of Macroeconomic Indicators of Capital Mobility

By Enrique G. Mendoza

December 1, 1992

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Enrique G. Mendoza Robustness of Macroeconomic Indicators of Capital Mobility, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1992) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

The performance of macroeconomic indicators of capital mobility is examined in the context of an intertemporal equilibrium model of a small open economy. Recursive numerical solution methods are used to compute measures of consumption smoothing, savings-investment correlation, and the variability and output-correlation of investment that characterize the model in the presence of income disturbances. None of these statistics is a reliable indicator of capital mobility unless information regarding differences in preferences, technology, and the nature of stochastic shocks can be taken into account.

Subject: Business cycles, Consumption, Economic growth, External position, Foreign assets, International trade, Labor, National accounts, Trade balance

Keywords: Balance of trade, Business cycles, Capital mobility, Consumption, Consumption variability, Foreign assets, Foreign assets, Immobile capital, Investment variability, Open economy, Savings plan, Savings-investment correlation, Standard deviation, Trade balance, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    40

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1992/111

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA1111992

  • ISBN:

    9781451853391

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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