"hump" savings. A major difference between this study and previous investigations of this issue is the use of more accurate … savings. This paper suggests the importance of and need for substantially greater research and data collection on … intergenerational transfers. fife-cycle models of savings that emphasize savings for retirement as the dominant form of apical …

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

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

increases in domestic savings rates induce approximately equal increases in domestic rates of investment. New estimates for the … flows than to their short-run behavior. Coefficient estimates based on annual variations in savings and investment are … post-OPEC period 1974-79 imply that each extra dollar of domestic saving increases domestic investment by approximately 85 …

savings rate on the investment rate, as performed in the literature, are shown to be incorrect tests of the hypothesis of … between current accounts, budget deficits, investment rates and transitory output shocks. It is argued that such a model could … current account and savings equations. Empirical tests of the model for a sample of 18 OECD countries present good evidence …

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is observed to be a predominant form of capital flows to low and middle income … countries with insufficiently developed capital markets. This paper analyzes the problem of channeling domestic savings into … productive investment in the presence of asymmetric information between the managing owners of firms and other portfolio …

optimal savings and therefore the level of unintended bequests. While those bequests may have no value to the retirees, they …

critical for understanding the relationship between aggregate fertility and household savings. First, we document that parents … household savings. Then, we construct an OLG model that parametrically matches the PE empirical evidence. Finally, we extend the … aggregate fertility on household savings …

oversupply of savings. Other forces that work in the same direction and can both create or exacerbate the problem include a drop … in population growth, an increase in income inequality, and a fall in the relative price of investment. Our model sheds …