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Back on track? : savings puzzles in EU-accession countries
Schrooten, Mechthild; Stephan, Sabine - 2002
remained stable during recent years. This may indicate that the transformation process has come to an end with regard to … savings. Is saving behaviour in EU-accession countries now driven by the same forces as it is in market economies? We use a …
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Savings in Central Eastern Europe
Schrooten, Mechthild; Stephan, Sabine - 2001
The paper seeks to add to the existing literature on aggregate and private savings by focusing on transition economies …, aggregate and private savings are driven by almost the same forces - this is the central focus of the paper. The most important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434227
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Private savings in Eastern European EU-accession countries : evidence from a dynamic panel data model
Schrooten, Mechthild; Stephan, Sabine - 2003
After the collapse in early transition years, saving rates in Eastern European EU-accession countries have recovered strongly. Is private saving in these countries now driven by the same forces as in the EU? A GMM estimator is applied to analyze the determinants of private saving in both country...
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Local banking and local economic growth in Italy : some panel evidence
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Di Colli, Stefano; Di Salvo, … - 2014
This paper provides new evidence on the contribution of local banking to local economic growth (i.e. at county level - the Italian "province") in Italy. A comprehensive dataset is used, which includes control variables for social capital and human capital as well as indicators of the quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010406692
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Interactions in fixed effects regression models
Giesselmann, Marco; Schmidt, Alexander - 2018
An interaction in a fixed effects (FE) regression is usually specified by demeaning the product term. However, this strategy does not yield a genuine within estimator. Instead, an estimator is produced that reflects unit-level differences of interacted variables whose moderators vary within...
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Global liquidity, world savings glut and global policy coordination
Belke, Ansgar; Gros, Daniel - 2010
; savings glut ; monetary policy ; policy coordination …
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Unemployment and portfolio choice : does persistence matter?
Kuzin, Vladimir; Bremus, Franziska M. - 2010
persistence. -- Precautionary savings ; unemployment insurance ; long-term unemployment ; income uncertainty …
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Precautionary and entrepreneurial saving : new evidence from German households
Fossen, Frank M.; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2009
The well-documented positive correlation between income risk and wealth was interpreted as evidence for high amounts of precautionary wealth in various studies. However, the large estimates emerged from pooling non-entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs without controlling for heterogeneity. This paper...
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Re-examining the decline in the US saving rate : the impact of mortgage equity withdrawal
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Costantini, Mauro; Paradiso, … - 2012
In this paper we examine the role of mortgage equity withdrawal in explaining the decline of the US saving rate, since when house prices rise and mortgage rates are low, homeowners have an incentive to withdraw housing equity and this may affect the saving rate. We estimate a Vector Error...
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Household savings decision and income uncertainty
Beznoska, Martin; Ochmann, Richard - 2010
uncertainty on households' consumption-savings decision. Applying a structural demand model to German survey data, we estimate the … uncompensated interest rate elasticity for savings, in line with the literature, to around zero. Accordingly, any policy …-induced variation of net returns to savings is expected to have no significant effects on the level of savings. Moreover, we find …
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