01675cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF004233 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451864076 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Nickel, Christiane. Does Fiscal Policy Matter for the Trade Account? : A Panel Cointegration Study / Christiane Nickel, Katja Funke. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2006. 1 online resource (27 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper analyzes the empirical relationship between fiscal policy and the trade account. Research prior to this paper did not consider that the components of private and public demand in the import demand equation exhibit different elasticities. Using pooled mean group estimation for annual panel data of the G-7 countries for the years 1970 through 2002, we provide empirical evidence that the composition of overall demand-i.e., the distribution among public demand, private demand, and export demand-has an impact on the magnitude of the trade account deficit. Mode of access: Internet Funke, Katja. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2006/147 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2006/147/001.2006.issue-147-en.xml IMF e-Library