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We investigate the role of budget balances, financial development and openness, in the evolution of global imbalances. Financial development -- or the lack thereof -- has received considerable attention as a possible contributing factor to the development of persistent and expanding current...
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savings rate, banking system, financial markets, financial regulations, corporate governance, and public finances; and …
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-country savings does not affect remittances sent home by migrants …We implemented a randomized field experiment that tested ways to stimulate savings by international migrants in their … Salvador. We randomly varied migrant control over El Salvador-based savings by offering different types of accounts across …
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shifted towards defined contribution (DC) plans as their primary savings plan, and fiscal pressures are likely to generate … retirement in other accounts. There is also substantial heterogeneity across jurisdictions in the savings generated in primary DC … employer match. We conclude by applying lessons from savings behavior in private sector savings plans to the design of public …
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China's high corporate savings rate is commonly claimed to be a key driver for the country's large current account … surplus. The mainstream explanation for high corporate savings is a combination of windfall profits in state-owned firms … doubt on these views by comparing the savings of 1557 Chinese listed firms with those of 29330 listed firms from 51 other …
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With extensive country- and firm-level data sets we first document that the financial sectors of most sub-Saharan African countries remain significantly underdeveloped by the standards of other developing countries. We also find that population density appears to be considerably more important...
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There is usually considerable uncertainty about the amount of investment that will accompany any level of protection …
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We evaluate differences in investment behavior between stock market listed and privately held firms in the U.S. using a … rich new data source on private firms. Listed firms invest less and are less responsive to changes in investment … firms, how we measure investment opportunities, lifecycle differences, or our matching criteria. We suggest that the …
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the use of bank accounts for transactions. The increase in savings is close to double the savings of the treatment over … the 10 month period prior to the intervention, 7 times the savings of the control group over the same period, and a 1 ….6 percentage point increase in the savings rate out of the cash transfer depostis …
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isolated in the respective experiences: in Asia unrepressed financial markets in mobilizing saving and allocating investment …, normal economic development is suspended. Moreover, difficult to reverse capital flight puts savings outside the home economy …
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