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A Real Model of Transitional Growth and Competitiveness in China

Lipschitz, Leslie - 2008

We present a stylized real model of the Chinese economy with the objective of explaining two features: (1) domestic production is highly competitive in the sense that an accumulation of capital that raises the marginal product of labor elicits increases in employment and output rather than only...

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Why Isn't South Africa Growing Faster? A Comparative Approach

Eyraud, Luc - 2009

The purpose of this paper is to examine factors that have constrained South Africa's growth since the end of apartheid 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...

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Dissecting saving dynamics : measuring wealth, precautionary, and credit effects

Carroll, Chris; Slacalek, Jirka; Sommer, Martin - 2012

We argue that the U.S. personal saving rate's long stability (from the 1960s through the early 1980s), subsequent steady decline (1980s - 2007), and recent substantial increase (2008 - 2011) can all be interpreted using a parsimonious 'buffer stock' model of optimal consumption in the presence...

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The volatility trap : precautionary saving, investment, and aggregate risk

Cherif, Reda; Hasanov, Fuad - 2012

We study the effects of permanent and temporary income shocks on precautionary saving and investment in a ""store-or-sow"" model of growth. High volatility of permanent shocks results in high precautionary saving in the safe asset and low investment, or a ""volatility trap."" Namely, big savers...

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World Saving

Grigoli, Francesco - 2014

This paper presents new evidence on the behavior of saving in the world, by extending previous empirical research in five dimensions. First, it is based on a very large and recent database, covering 165 countries from 1981 to 2012. Second, it conducts a robustness analysis across different...

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Is Housing Wealth an 'ATM'? The Relationship Between Household Wealth, Home Equity Withdrawal, and Saving Rates.

Klyuev, Vladimir - 2006

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. HAVE SAVING RATES REALLY FALLEN? -- III. LIKELY IMPACT OF FINANCIAL INNOVATION AND LIBERALIZATION ON HOME EQUITY WITHDRAWAL ( HEW) AND SAVING -- IV. TRENDS IN HEWAND HOUSEHOLD SAVING ACROSS COUNTRIES -- V. HOW DOES HEW AFFECT HOUSEHOLD SAVING? -- VI....

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Do Debt-Service Savings and Grants Boost Social Expenditures?.

Thomas, Alun H - 2006

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What Explains Private Saving in Mexico?.

Swiston, Andrew - 2006

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. GROWTH, SAVING, AND INVESTMENT IN AN EMERGING MARKET ECONOMY -- III. THE MEASUREMENT OF PRIVATE SAVING -- IV. CROSS-COUNTRY EVIDENCE -- V. TIME-SERIES EVIDENCE FOR MEXICO -- VI. MEXICO'S SAVING: WHICH WAY DOES THE CAUSALITY GO? -- VII. CONCLUSIONS --...

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Who Saves in Ireland? The Micro Evidence.

Moreno-Badia, Marialuz - 2006

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. WHO SAVES IN IRELAND? -- III. ARE HOUSEHOLD SAVINGS AFFECTED BY CAPITAL … GAINS IN HOUSING? -- IV. THE SPECIAL SAVINGS INCENTIVE ACCOUNTS -- V. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- APPENDIX I -- APPENDIX II …

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Frugality

Tanner, Evan - 2009

Household savings rates in the United States have recently crept up from all-time lows. Some have suggested that a …, our model predicts that such primary savings will increase, but only temporarily and modestly, as household assets … stabilize. As savings flows gradually accumulate, they help rebuild corporate net worth and hence firms' capacity to make capit …

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