Thirty years of current account imbalances, current account reversals, and sudden stops

IMF Staff Papers

Volumn 51, Issue SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 1-49

  Edwards, Sebastian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

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