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Consumption Smoothing and the Current Account: Evidence for France, 1970-94Pierre-Richard AgenorUniversity of Manchester - School of Social Sciences Claude Bismutaffiliation not provided to SSRN Paul Anthony CashinInternational Monetary Fund (IMF) C. John McDermottReserve Bank of New Zealand November 1995 IMF Working Paper No. 95/119 Abstract: This paper estimates a simple consumption-smoothing model of the French current account, and examines its capacity to predict recent developments in France`s external performance. The model views the current account as a buffer through which private agents can smooth consumption over time in response to temporary disturbances to output, investment, and government expenditure. The empirical results indicate that the model performs well overall, and predicts correctly the sharp turnaround in France`s external accounts observed in the past three years--a feature of the data that conventional models of trade flows, based on income and relative price variables, appear unable to explain.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 18 JEL Classification: F32, F41, F47 working papers seriesDate posted: February 15, 2006Suggested CitationContact Information
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