Current account deficits in the Euro area: The end of the Feldstein-Horioka puzzle?

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

Volumn , Issue 2, 2002, Pages 147-209

  Blanchard, Olivier ^a   Giavazzi, Francesco ^a  

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EID: 0036999617     PISSN: 00072303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/eca.2003.0001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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