Are Imports and Exports Cointegrated: the Case of Bulgaria between 1967 and 2004

• Authors: Yannick Bineau
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This note tests current account sustainability in Bulgaria from 1967 to 2004. Empirical analysis adopts various unit root and cointegration tests with structural breaks. Evidence of a long run relation between exports and imports in Bulgaria is shown, despite the financial crisis of 1996/8. Intertemporal current account constraint is not violated in Bulgaria.

Keywords

EN

Current account sustainability; Cointegration; Bulgaria

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: South East European Journal of Economics and Business
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 53-56

Dates

published

2007-11-01

online

2008-03-04

Contributors

author

Yannick Bineau

• EQUIPPE, Faculty of Economics, University of Lille I, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10033-007-0005-1