Bernanke (2005) hypothesized that a "global savings glut" was causing large trade imbalances. However, we show that the … global savings rates did not show a robust upward trend during the relevant period. Moreover, if there had been a global … savings glut there should have been a large investment boom in the countries that imported capital. Instead, those countries …

China's high corporate savings rate is commonly claimed to be a key driver for the country's large current account … surplus. The mainstream explanation for high corporate savings is a combination of windfall profits in state-owned firms … doubt on these views by comparing the savings of 1557 Chinese listed firms with those of 29330 listed firms from 51 other …

Given the rapidly growing reserves in Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan) and the pressures from trading partners to …, and that changes in trade flows can be substantial. Different treatments of China's processing trade have small impact on … changes in China's trade flow under RMB appreciation, but significant impacts on the change in the surplus. Results are …

translates employment, reapplication and savings decisions into revealed preferences for leisure and consumption. We find that …

Large savings and current account surpluses by China and other countries are said to be a contributor to the global … current account imbalances and possibly to the recent global financial crisis. This paper proposes a theory of excess savings … show conditions under which an intensified competition in the marriage market can induce men to raise their savings rate …

This paper examines the effect of exogenous shocks to savings on world capital markets. Using the exogenous shocks to … US tax policy identified by Romer & Romer, we trace the impact of an exogenous shock to savings through the income … changes in private savings (Ricardian equivalence is not complete). We also find that only a small amount of the resulting …

rate. So a rise will be driven by higher household savings of the coming years as the two primary forces that depressed … savings in recent years are reversed: the exceptionally rapid rise in household wealth and the high level of mortgage …