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technology of private investment. Government policies that discourage saving might make the Schumpeterian vision of a shift from …
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investment rates observed in OECD countries. We find that once controlling for general equilibrium effects the saving …
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features of the world at present are the low rates of investment and growth in some of the richest countries, whose surpluses … account for about half of the US deficit. The result is that financial capital is flowing out of countries with low investment …
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We propose an empirical implementation of the consumption-investment problem using the martingale representation … simplifies the investor's task of specifying the investment opportunity set and inherits the computational convenience of the … and probabilities, which generate variation in consumption, and the consumption smoothing induced by risk aversion. Using …
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Despite enormous growth in international capital flows, capital-output ratios continue to exhibit substantial heterogeneity across countries. We explore the possibility that taxes, particularly corporate taxes, are a significant source of this heterogeneity. The evidence is mixed. Tax rates...
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According to the consensus view in growth and development economics, cross country differences in per-capita income largely reflect differences in countries' total factor productivity. We argue that this view has powerful implications for patterns of capital flows: everything else equal,...
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We extend the sudden stops literature by allowing crisis episodes to be caused by either the retreat of global investors, as is assumed but not shown in the extant literature, or the sudden flight of local investors. We find that almost half of the previously defined sudden stops are actually...
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specialized in the source country. Consequently, FDI investors would make investment, both larger, and of higher quality (namely … the domestic investment and output growth regressions relative to the portfolio equity flow and international loan … coefficients, reflect a more significant role for FDI in the domestic investment process than other types of capital inflows …
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The persistence of high savings-investment correlations and home-country bias in portfolio construction at the national … significant correlation between national savings and investment, among provinces that effect disappears. We discuss the …
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change suggest likelyquot; implications for future saving, investment, and international capital flows.quot …
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