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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 … not total investment directly. Specifically, we use the share of adults in the [35-49] years of age bracket as an …
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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 …
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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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institutional reforms reduce financial frictions? Based on a canonical investment model, we consider two potential channels: (i …
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This paper studies the effect of demographic change on national saving, global interest rates, and international capital flows, focusing on the role of the public pension system. We develop a small open economy overlapping generations model to illustrate the channels through which demographic...
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We analyze the impact of trade policy uncertainty on investment in the euro area. Our identification strategy assumes … that countries that are relatively more dependent on global trade networks exhibit a higher sensitivity of investment with … respect to trade uncertainty. We find that the investment-to-GDP ratio is on average 0.8 percentage points lower for five …
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Are preferences for reforms driven by individuals' own endowments or beliefs? To address this question, we conducted a cross-country survey on people's opinions on employment protection legislation-an area where reform has proven to be difficult and personal interests are at stake. We find that...
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, and effective regulation. Recent developments suggest that regulatory approaches and their legal foundations need to … augment entity-based regulation with increasing focus on activities and risks as market structure changes. This paper draws on …
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In this paper, we discuss whether and how bank lobbying can lead to regulatory capture and have real consequences through an overview of the motivations behind bank lobbying and of recent empirical evidence on the subject. Overall, the findings are consistent with regulatory capture, which...
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