Trésor-Economics No. 20 - Should we worry about current-account imbalances in a monetary union ?
For the past several years, the eurozone current account has been nearly balanced despite divergent trends in the current accounts of individual member countries. Germany's current account has improved in the recent period, while the current-account deficits of Spain, Portugal, and Greece widened by 8.3, 9.8, and 8.1 points of GDP respectively in 2006.In theory, these current-account imbalances ar... Lire la suite