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Feldstein and Horioka (1980) argued that the correlation of saving and investment in a cross-section of countries may … investment should be cointegrated over time. Simulations show that the cross-section regressions used in the literature will …
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Domestic savings and investment are positively correlated across countries and through time, as Feldstein-Horioka (FH … relationship is causal: an exogenous rise in savings increases investment. This result holds in the full sample of countries and … endogeneity bias. The core of our identification strategy relies on the idea that population age structure influences savings, but …
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The previous literature points to a high correlation between domestic rates of investment and savings among OECD … investment on the rate of domestic savings is statistically insignificant most of the time and generally smaller than 0.3 for any …
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This paper analyzes reasons for the high post-war correlations of saving and investment, both across countries and over …
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Italy and provinces in Canada. Analyzing saving-investment correlations, and developing as well as fitting to the data a …
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This paper examines the extent of international financial integration, and its consequences for the current account. The evidence indicates that financial liberalization in the 1970s and 1980s has resulted in a substantial movement towards closer integration of world capital markets. By reducing...
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The relationship between regional saving and investment is examined to measure the extent of capital mobility. The … relationship between total regional saving and investment is significantly negative in Canada and the United Kingdom, in contrast … poor regions. The relationship between personal saving and private investment is insignificant in the U.K. and Germany and …
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-run capital flows in both theory and in the data. For this purpose, we develop a two region overlapping generations model where …
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the effects of migration on the accumulation of both knowledge and human capital, by invoking endogenous growth theory …
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This paper introduces a tractable capital market friction mechanism that allows a break of the parity between domestic and external interest rates and generates a gradual evolution of capital stock and other macroeconomic variables-in contrast to the instantaneous convergence found in models...
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