This paper calculates the levels of optimal national saving, investment, and the current account balance for five Asian … economies—Hong Kong SAR, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines—for the period 1997–2050 using a simulation approach …

We study the effects of permanent and temporary income shocks on precautionary saving and investment in a ""store … investment, or a ""volatility trap."" Namely, big savers invest relatively little. In contrast, low volatility of permanent … shocks leads to low precautionary saving and high or low investment, depending on the volatility of temporary shocks …

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

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 …

structural reforms have been conducive to better growth, savings, and private investment …

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 …

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 …