Fiscal policy and the current account evidence from South Africa

This paper investigates the link between fiscal policy and the current account in post-apartheid South Africa using Bayesian-Vector Autoregressions (BVARs). Consistent with the predictions of the twin deficit hypothesis, the analysis reports a strong positive relationship between the government budget balance and the current account.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

School of Economics

Year dc:date.issued

2012

Author dc:creator

• Searle, Peter

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Mama, Albert Touna
• Kotzé, Kevin

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12194

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/12194