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Current Account Balances, Financial Development and Institutions : Assaying the World "Savings Glut"
Chinn, Menzie David; Ito, Hiro - 2021
institutional development, with a goal of informing the recent debate over the existence and relevance of the "savings glut." The … reverse correlation; greater financial development leads to higher savings. Furthermore, there is no evidence of "excess …
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Current Accounts in the Long and Short Run
Kraay, Aart; Ventura, Jaume - 2021
Faced with income fluctuations, countries smooth their consumption by raising savings when income is high, and vice … versa. How much of these savings do countries invest at home and abroad? In other words, what are the effects of … fluctuations in savings on domestic investment and the current account? In the long run, we find that countries invest the marginal …
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Medium-Term Determinants of Current Accounts in Industrial and Developing Countries : An Empirical Exploration
Chinn, Menzie David; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2021
This paper provides an empirical investigation of the medium-term determinants of current accounts for a large sample of industrial and developing countries. The analysis is based on a structural approach that highlights the roles of the fundamental macroeconomic determinants of saving and...
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Why Aren't Developed Countries Saving?
Dobrescu, Loretti - 2009
National saving rates differ enormously across developed countries. But these differences obscure a common trend, namely a dramatic decline over time. France and Italy, for example, saved over 17 percent of national income in 1970, but less than 7 percent in 2006. Japan saved 30 percent in 1970,...
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International Reserves Before and after the Global Crisis : Is There No End to Hoarding?
Aizenman, Joshua - 2014
, possibly reflecting high-income countries' tendency to deploy their savings in the global capital markets. The presence of …
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International Capital Mobility in Developing Countries vs. Industrial Countries : What Do Saving-Investment Correlations Tell Us?
Frankel, Jeffrey A.; Dooley, Michael P.; Mathieson, … - 2021
The finding of Feldstein and Horioka (1980) that countriesf investment rates are highly correlated with their national saving rates has by now been confirmed by many subsequent studies, even though their inference that international capital mobility nust be low has not been as widely accepted....
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Precaution Versus Mercantilism : Reserve Accumulation, Capital Controls, and the Real Exchange Rate
Choi, Woo Jin - 2017
We document a new international stylized fact describing the relationship between real exchange rates and external asset holdings. Economists have long argued that the real exchange rate is associated with the net international investment position, appreciating as external wealth increases. This...
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A Tractable Model of Precautionary Reserves, Net Foreign Assets, or Sovereign Wealth Funds
Carroll, Christopher D. - 2010
We model the motives for residents of a country to hold foreign assets, including the precautionary motive that has been omitted from much previous literature as intractable. Our model captures many of the principal insights from the existing specialized literature on the precautionary motive,...
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India'S Experience with Capital Flows : The Elusive Quest for a Sustainable Current Account Deficit
Shah, Ajay; Patnaik, Ila - 2021
From the early 1990s onwards, India has engaged in policies involving trade liberalisation, strong controls on debt flows, and encouragement for portfolio flows and FDI, under a pegged exchange rate regime. Domestic institutional factors have led to relatively little FDI and substantial...
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Currency Wars, Coordination, and Capital Controls
Blanchard, Olivier J. - 2016
The strong monetary policy actions undertaken by advanced economies' central banks have led to complaints of “currency wars” by some emerging market economies, and to widespread demands for more macroeconomic policy coordination. This paper revisits these issues. It concludes that, while...
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