The role of stock markets in current account dynamics: A time series approach

Topics in Macroeconomics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Mercereau, Benoit ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

Current account; Stock market

Indexed keywords

EID: 15044359747     PISSN: 15345998     EISSN: 15345998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1534-5998.1063     Document Type: Article

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