a randomized experiment across 110 bank branches throughout Mexico, a lottery incentive based on net monthly deposits … had a persistent 2-3 year impact on the flow of deposits and stock of savings, and increased the present value of branch …

Increasing the rate of saving is an important priority for many emerging market countries. This paper focuses on Mexico … and discusses a variety of policies through which the government of Mexico could stimulate a higher rate of saving. These …

already received transfers directly deposited into a savings account. Using administrative account data and household surveys … number of checks decreases over time as their reported trust in the bank and savings increase. Their overall savings rate …

returns on those investments) has important implications for the saving, investment, and entry decisions of continuing and … potential entrepreneurs. These effects are similar in spirit to the role played by costly external financing on investment by … studies of household saving decisions in general and of the savings decisions of wealthy or high-income households in …

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 … level is contrasted with new evidence of savings behaviour in Canadian provinces. We confirm that national borders clearly …

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 …

likely" implications for future saving, investment, and international capital flows." …

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

international capital flows or, equivalently, between domestic saving rates and domestic investment. The basic conclusion of the … present analysis is that an increase in domestic saving has a substantial effect on the level of domestic investment although … a smaller effect than would have been observed in the 1960s and 1970s. The savings retention coefficient for the 1980 …