direct measures of product variety calculated from 6-digit OECD export and import data. Although the issue is still far from …

account, driven by an initial, sharp decline in investment and fueled by medium term deleveraging, more so in advanced …

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 …

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 … not total investment directly. Specifically, we use the share of adults in the [35-49] years of age bracket as an …

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 …

. On the contrary fiscal adjustments which rely primarily on tax increases and cuts in public investment tend not to last …