This paper investigates reasons for the sustained growth in private savings in Indonesia since 1970, in a period characterised by economic growth, demographic changes, terms of trade movements, and financial liberalisation. The main findings is that predictions from a simple life cycle model do...

We use comparable micro level panel data for 14 countries and a set of identically specified empirical models to investigate the relationship between exports and productivity. Our overall results are in line with the big picture that is by now familiar from the literature: Exporters are more...