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 …

variables move over time and analyzes how they influence macroeconomic variables such as economic growth, inflation, savings and … investment, and fiscal balances, from an empirical perspective. Based on empirical findings-particularly regarding inflation …

reallocated from the private to the public sectors, reducing investment and deepening the recessions even further. To account for …. This implies that domestic debt purchases displace productive investment. The model shows that these purchases reduce …

rather than a greater 'effort' to save it. Finally, we find evidence that, while savings during the boom help to increase … post-boom income, the composition of such savings matters. Specifically, in past episodes, savings allocated to foreign … asset accumulation appear to have contributed more to post-boom income than those devoted to domestic investment …

This paper extends recent work by Feldstein and Horioka (1980) and Bayoumi (1990), and examines saving-investment … non-EMS countries. It is seen that the EMS countries exhibit much lower saving-investment correlations than their non …

The increase in the U.S. public debt over the past twelve years raises questions about its implications for investment …

This paper explores, from an investment-saving perspective, the factors underlying the persistent widening of the …

, the limited tools available to policymakers to affect savings are discussed. Finally, the extent to which recent tax …