IMF Working Papers

Net Foreign Assets and International Adjustment: The United States, Japan, and Germany

By Jocelyn Horne, Paul R Masson, Jeroen J. M. Kremers

April 1, 1993

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Jocelyn Horne, Paul R Masson, and Jeroen J. M. Kremers Net Foreign Assets and International Adjustment: The United States, Japan, and Germany, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1993) accessed September 26, 2024
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Summary

This paper examines external adjustment in the United States, Japan and Germany from the perspective of net foreign asset positions. It asks two questions: What are, in the long run, the determinants of net foreign asset equilibrium? and: What are, in the short run, some of the adjustment mechanisms sustaining that equilibrium? An analysis of post-war data produces two insights. First, using a cointegration approach, the existence of long-run net foreign asset equilibrium can be identified: it is a function of demographic variables and public debt. Second, deviations from long-run equilibrium give rise to feedback through different components of domestic absorption in the three countries.

Subject: Balance of payments, Current account, Expenditure, External position, Foreign assets, Foreign currency exposure, Money, Public debt

Keywords: Asset accumulation, Asset stock accumulation, Current account, Current account flow, Debt ratio, Dependency ratio, Equilibrium of the United States, Exchange rate movement, F/Y, Foreign assets, Foreign currency exposure, Germany, GNP, GNP ratio, Ratio, Ratio to GNP, WP, Youth dependency ratio

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    26

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1993/033

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0331993

  • ISBN:

    9781451979244

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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