Global imbalances: The new economy, the dark matter, the savvy investor, and the standard analysis

Journal of Policy Modeling

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 645-652

  Eichengreen, Barry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Current global imbalances; Dark matter; US current account deficit

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747348481     PISSN: 01618938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpolmod.2006.06.001     Document Type: Article

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