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Saving-Investment Correlations : Immobile Capital. Government Policy or Endogenous Behavior?
International Monetary Fund - 1989
This paper analyzes reasons for the high post-war correlations of saving and investment, both across countries and over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396226
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Neglected Heterogeneity and Dynamics in Cross-Country Savings Regressions
International Monetary Fund - 1999
This paper examines the extent to which conclusions of cross-country studies of private savings are robust to allowing … for the possible heterogeneity of savings behavior across countries and the inclusion of dynamics. It shows that … neglecting heterogeneity and dynamics can lead to misleading inferences about the key determinants of savings behavior. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400163
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Saving, Investment, Financial Integration, and the Balance of Payments
International Monetary Fund - 1989
This paper examines the extent of international financial integration, and its consequences for the current account. The evidence indicates that financial liberalization in the 1970s and 1980s has resulted in a substantial movement towards closer integration of world capital markets. By reducing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395900
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A Noteon Saving-Investment Correlations in the EMS
International Monetary Fund - 1990
This paper extends recent work by Feldstein and Horioka (1980) and Bayoumi (1990), and examines saving-investment … non-EMS countries. It is seen that the EMS countries exhibit much lower saving-investment correlations than their non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396141
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Factors Affecting Saving, Policy tools, and Tax Reform : A Review
International Monetary Fund - 1989
, the limited tools available to policymakers to affect savings are discussed. Finally, the extent to which recent tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396192
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Savings, Investment, and Growth in Mexico : Five Years After the Crisis
International Monetary Fund - 1989
among the factors that have contributed most to delaying the private sector’s investment response and preventing a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396459
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France : Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund - 2000
This paper presents an overview of the different methodologies that can be used to measure the amount of available slack in an economy. A comparison of these alternatives reveals that the evolution of the Nairu is crucial for understanding recent cyclical developments in the French economy. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403325
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France : Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund - 2008
The export performance of the French economy relative to its own past and relative to a major trading partner, Germany, has deteriorated. The risk analysis indicates that French firms have seen a significant improvement in the corporate health, and seem resilient to the recent financial shock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404491
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France : Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund - 2006
U.S. shocks explain a large part of French output common components. This paper analyzes the economic implications of two alternative welfare financing reforms: a reduction in payroll taxes funded by an increase in consumption taxes, and the other funded by a new levy on business value added....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404706
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France : Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund - 2005
This Selected Issues paper analyzes the recent French inflation behavior. The paper demonstrates that the recent change in French headline inflation behavior resulted from a few idiosyncratic, i.e., transient, factors. The paper describes the model setup and calibration of some crucial economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014405771