Hard to Explain Current U.S. Account Gap

Hard to Explain Current U.S. Account Gap - Fed Study

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12 September 2006 at 10:20 a.m. ET

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The Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s can explain the emergence of large current account surpluses in the region, but fails to explain why the United States faces a deficit, a Federal Reserve study found.

Joseph Gruber and Steven Kamin, two researchers at the Fed’s Washington-based board, said that while conventional economic models do not explain the burgeoning Asian surpluses, a model altered to account for financial crises did.

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