United Kingdom. Mortgage market liberalization and innovation should reduce household cash flow and collateral constraints …

This paper calculates the levels of optimal national saving, investment, and the current account balance for five Asian …

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 …

relative rise of the U.S. savings rate is helping narrow global imbalances. But with a likely earlier recovery in the U …

-sustaining in coastal provinces, in large part because investment here tends to benefit household incomes more than corporates. If … spillovers to household income and consumption. In this context, investment in agriculture and services is found to be superior …This paper proposes a possible framework for identifying excessive investment. Based on this method, it finds evidence …