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A view receiving increased support is that the height of trade costs in prime export sectors has a strong effect on current account balances: countries specializing in sectors that face relatively high trade costs, such as services, tend to run current account deficits, and similarly, countries...
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closer integration of world capital markets. By reducing constraints on international capital flows, this movement makes the …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 … countries. Some take this as evidence of limited financial integration in the industrialized world. This paper presents new …
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Italy and provinces in Canada. Analyzing saving-investment correlations, and developing as well as fitting to the data a …
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This paper analyzes reasons for the high post-war correlations of saving and investment, both across countries and over …
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This paper examines the effects of trade costs on macroeconomic volatility. We first construct a dynamic, two-country general equilibrium model, where the degree of market integration depends directly on trade costs (transport costs, tariffs, etc.). The model is a extension of Obstfeld and...
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This paper develops a gravity model framework to estimate the impact of infectious diseases on bilateral tourism flows among 38,184 pairs of countries over the period 1995-2017. The results confirm that international tourism is adversely affected by disease risk, and the magnitude of this...
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