Author : Mr.Tamim Bayoumi
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1451873956
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (518 download)
Book Synopsis Today versus Tomorrow - The Sensitivity of the Non-Oil Current Account Balance to Permanent and Current Income by : Mr.Tamim Bayoumi
Download or read book Today versus Tomorrow - The Sensitivity of the Non-Oil Current Account Balance to Permanent and Current Income written by Mr.Tamim Bayoumi and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper applies the Permanent Income Model to the non-oil current accounts of the major oil exporters to assess the extent to which national consumption decisions in these countries are made on the basis of permanent versus current income. A test of whether the return on oil wealth and oil balance coefficients sum to unity is accepted for all specifications that adjust the return on wealth for future population changes. For oil-exporting countries outside Africa, around half of the fluctuations in the private sector non-oil balance are driven by considerations of changes in permanent income (the return on oil wealth) rather than current income. By contrast, for the public sector and African countries permanent income has little or no effect.