01948cas a2200265 a 4500 AALejournalIMF014344 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781475516388 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Ding, Ding. Cross-Country Experience in Reducing Net Foreign Liabilities : Lessons for New Zealand / Ding Ding, Werner Schule, Yan Sun. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2014. 1 online resource (20 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 studies the dynamics of net foreign liabilities across a number of countries. Our historical analysis suggests that an orderly reduction in a country's net foreign liabilities has mostly occurred when there was significant improvement in gross public savings through deliberate fiscal consolidation measures. Simulations of a dynamic general equilibrium model calibrated for New Zealand indicates that sustained government deficit reduction could improve the country's net foreign assets by about half of the accumulated public savings. However, given New Zealand's relatively strong fiscal positions and previous work noting structurally low household savings, an orderly improvement in New Zealand's external position in the medium term will depend on a structural improvement in private savings. Mode of access: Internet Schule, Werner. Sun, Yan. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2014/062 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2014/062/001.2014.issue-062-en.xml IMF e-Library