This paper uses a quasi natural experiment to explore how financial education changes savings, investment, and consumer …

technology of private investment. Government policies that discourage saving might make the Schumpeterian vision of a shift from …

reallocated from the private to the public sectors, reducing investment and deepening the recessions even further. To account for … these facts, we propose a simple model of sovereign risk in which debt can be traded in secondary markets. The model has two …. This implies that domestic debt purchases displace productive investment. The model shows that these purchases reduce …

It is well understood that investment serves as a shock absorber at the time of crisis. The duration of the drag on … investment, however, is perplexing. For the nine Asian economies we focus on in this study, average investment/GDP is about 6 … between the sustained reserve accumulation and the persistent and significantly lower levels of investment in the region. Put …

investment rates observed in OECD countries. We find that once controlling for general equilibrium effects the saving …

growth. Investment growth has dominated GDP growth in China during this decade but is also important in the cases of India … and Vietnam. To examine the global implications of domestic growth patterns in Asia, I analyze saving-investment balances … region. In terms of sheer magnitudes, China's national savings and current account surpluses dominate the region's saving-investment …

change in US saving is absorbed by increased domestic investment (contrary to Feldstein & Horioka). Almost half of the fiscal … deficits and increases in investment in other countries in the world. We cannot reject that the shock is uniformly transmitted …

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 …

, investment in capital goods and a non-traded good. Such an environment is rich enough to explain several phenomena that are … inexplicable in more barren models. We suggest an explanation of why saving and investment may be correlated even with no … restrictions on trade in assets. We explain why a high saving country may nonetheless borrow from abroad to finance investment. We …