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The Effects of Financial Deregulationon Consumption
International Monetary Fund - 1989
This paper examines whether financial deregulation in the 1980s has reduced the importance of liquidity constraints in consumption patterns. Data for six industrialized countries are used to estimate a simple model incorporating liquidity constraints and forward looking behavior. It is concluded...
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The Great Rebalancing Act : Can Investment Be a Lever in Asia?
International Monetary Fund - 2011
Ensuring stable growth in the postcrisis world economy will require a rebalancing of economic activity in several countries. In Asia’s export-dependent economies, this entails relying more on private domestic demand as a driver of growth. While some countries need to raise consumption, several...
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Fiscal Policy and Private Sector Saving Behavior; Tests of Ricardian Equivalence in Some Developing Economies
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 1987
Tax or debt financing of a given rate of government expenditures would, according to the now well-known Ricardian Equivalence proposition, have equivalent effects on aggregate demand. Among the reasons for a deviation from the equivalence is the possibility that the government and the private...
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Australia : selected issues
Schule, Werner; Jauregui, Juan; Sun, Yan; Basu, Suman - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009510794
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Malawi Financial Sector Assessment Program : Contractual Savings - Insurance and Pensions
International Monetary Fund - 2008
The penetration level of the insurance and pension sectors in Malawi is low, but it seems adequate as compared with other countries in similar stages of development. Concentration and costs are high, the regulatory framework is outdated or inexistent and supervision is weak. An innovative pilot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247124
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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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The Role of National Saving in the World Economy : Recent Trends and Prospects
International Monetary Fund - 1990
resources, including the mobilization of savings to finance domestic investment …
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Implications of Oil Inflows for Savings and Reserve Management in the Cemac
International Monetary Fund - 2007
-term savings funds but due to low remuneration and other factors usage has remained limited. The paper also argues that regional … savings in the form of reserve accumulation must be sufficient to ensure the stability of the common currency. While the … country-specific savings decisions and the setting of a regional reserve target. Strengthening and diversifying reserve …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399526
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Pakistan's Macroeconomic Adjustment and Resumption of Growth, 1999-2004
International Monetary Fund - 2005
strengthening in domestic savings and rise in domestic investment permanent, auguring well for accelerated growth within a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400063
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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 correlations for industrial countries in the post-war period. The focus of the enquiry is on differences observed between EMS and non-EMS countries. It is seen that the EMS countries...
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