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Martin Stuart ("Marty") Feldstein, currently George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University and President Emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. (NBER), is a renowned American economist who has made important contributions to public finance, macroeconomics,...
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, which is that even though global financial markets appear to be integrated, levels of saving and investment are correlated …
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Martin Stuart ("Marty") Feldstein, currently George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University and President Emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. (NBER), is a renowned American economist who has made important contributions to public finance, macroeconomics,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398502
This paper shows that global capital markets cannot, by themselves, achieve net transfers of financial capital between countries and that both the integration of global financial markets as well as the integration of global goods markets are needed to achieve net transfers of capital between...
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investment rate on the domestic saving rate, the estimated coefficient is significantly larger than what would be expected in a … world characterized by high capital mobility) should have never been labeled as such. First, we show that the investment and … saving series typically used in empirical exercises to test the Feldstein-Horioka thesis are not appropriate for testing …
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In this paper, we find that home bias is still present in all economies and regions, especially in the case of short-term debt securities, but that there are substantial variations among economies and regions in the strength of home bias, with the Eurozone economies, the US, and developing Asia...
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This paper discusses the difference between Fisherian and Ricardian trade in terms of a simple two-period model of a small open economy. Fisherian or intertemporal trade occurs when goods are traded today against the promise to deliver goods in the future. The resulting net resource transfer is...
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imperfections in causing saving-investment corrrelations has hardly been investigated so far. … between national savings and domestic investment emerges as a robust empirical regularity. If this regularity is to be …
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-run investment-saving correlation follows directly from the economy’s dynamic budget constraint and this does not depend on the … annual and quarterly post-war U.S. data, I find that investment and saving are cointegrated in levels as well as in rates … degree of international capital mobility. Therefore, unless the budget constraint is violated, the time series of investment …
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-run bivariate relationship between the time series of investment and saving. Third, I also examine the short-run as well as the … cyclical relationships between the time series of investment and saving. The results reported in this paper indicate that there … is a strong long-run and cyclical relationship between investment and saving, and this relationship seems to be …
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