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This paper examines the role increasing personal wealth and home equity withdrawal (HEW) have had in the decline in the personal saving rate in the United States. It does so by comparing the U.S. experience with those of Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Mortgage market liberalization...
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This paper calculates the levels of optimal national saving, investment, and the current account balance for five Asian …
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by comparing its GDP components and its saving and investment performance with those of 10 faster-growing countries. The … study finds that sluggish investment has undermined growth since 1996 and that the underinvestment is in part explained by … limited saving. Thus, over the last decade, interactions between investment, saving, and production may have perpetuated slow …
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This paper examines the macroeconomic implications of life-cycle and dynastic saving behavior for closed and small, open economies. Using an extended version of Blanchard’s overlapping agents model, the analytical framework nests these two competing views, treating agents as either dynastic...
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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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China is poised on the brink of a transition to a service-based economy. The Japanese experience of the 1980s provides several insights about the way to manage such a transition and the downsides to avoid. In particular Japan offers useful insights on (1) the limits to an export-oriented growth...
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relative rise of the U.S. savings rate is helping narrow global imbalances. But with a likely earlier recovery in the U …
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determine savings, investment and growth. Investment is assumed to involve intermediation or other costs which may, in each … period, result in either of two stable equilibria for the savings rate. At the “good” equilibrium, savings and growth are … individual’s belief about the savings behavior of other agents in the economy. The model implies that fiscal policy or public …
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direct investment is also substantial. We explain these features in terms of a conventional neoclassical growth model-with no …
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