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Demographic Change in Asia : The Impacton Optimal National Saving, Investment, and the Current Account

McDonald, Ian - 2000

This paper calculates the levels of optimal national saving, investment, and the current account balance for five Asian …

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The Output Decline in Asian Crisis Countries : Investment Aspects

Greene, Joshua E. - 2002

reducing the financing available for domestic investment. Panel data regressions suggest a positive, short-term relationship … between net capital inflows and investment during the period before 1997 in five Asian countries once real net capital flows … are netted out from real flows of private bank credit. In addition, net real private inflows and real private investment …

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A new look at the determinants of growth in Asian countries

Ghazanchyan, Manuk; Stotsky, Janet G.; Zhang, Qianqian - 2015

This study examines the drivers of growth in Asian countries, with focus on the role of investment, the exchange rate … evidence is found that reduced financial risk and higher foreign direct investment support growth. The exchange rate regime …

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Gone with the wind : estimating hurricane and climate change costs in the Caribbean

Acevedo, Sebastian - 2016

This paper studies the economic costs of hurricanes in the Caribbean by constructing a novel dataset that combines a detailed record of tropical cyclones' characteristics with reported damages. I estimate the relation between hurricane wind speeds and damages in the Caribbean; finding that the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715466

Demographics, pension systems and the saving-investment balance

Chai, Hua; Kim, Jun-il - 2018

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978553

Trade uncertainty and investment in the euro area

Ebeke, Christian; Siminitz, Jesse - 2018

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 …