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institutional development, with a goal of informing the recent debate over the existence and relevance of the "savings glut." The … reverse correlation; greater financial development leads to higher savings. Furthermore, there is no evidence of "excess …
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Faced with income fluctuations, countries smooth their consumption by raising savings when income is high, and vice … versa. How much of these savings do countries invest at home and abroad? In other words, what are the effects of … fluctuations in savings on domestic investment and the current account? In the long run, we find that countries invest the marginal …
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This paper provides an empirical investigation of the medium-term determinants of current accounts for a large sample of industrial and developing countries. The analysis is based on a structural approach that highlights the roles of the fundamental macroeconomic determinants of saving and...
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The finding of Feldstein and Horioka (1980) that countriesf investment rates are highly correlated with their national saving rates has by now been confirmed by many subsequent studies, even though their inference that international capital mobility nust be low has not been as widely accepted....
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National saving rates differ enormously across developed countries. But these differences obscure a common trend, namely a dramatic decline over time. France and Italy, for example, saved over 17 percent of national income in 1970, but less than 7 percent in 2006. Japan saved 30 percent in 1970,...
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, possibly reflecting high-income countries' tendency to deploy their savings in the global capital markets. The presence of …
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We document a new international stylized fact describing the relationship between real exchange rates and external asset holdings. Economists have long argued that the real exchange rate is associated with the net international investment position, appreciating as external wealth increases. This...
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The paper proposes a unified framework to study the dynamics of net foreign assets and exchange rate movements. We show that deteriorations in a country's net exports or net foreign asset position have to be matched either by future net export growth (trade adjustment channel) or by future...
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and the reversal in returns earned on the US NFA (exorbitant privilege). We show that global savings gluts and monetary …
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We model the motives for residents of a country to hold foreign assets, including the precautionary motive that has been omitted from much previous literature as intractable. Our model captures many of the principal insights from the existing specialized literature on the precautionary motive,...
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