01886cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF006136 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451873955 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Thomas, Alun. Today versus Tomorrow : The Sensitivity of the Non-Oil Current Account Balance to Permanent and Current Income / Alun Thomas, Tamim Bayoumi. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009. 1 online resource (17 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 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. Mode of access: Internet Bayoumi, Tamim. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2009/248 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2009/248/001.2009.issue-248-en.xml IMF e-Library