Latin American countries have long exhibited low levels of saving rates when compared to other countries in relatively similar stages of economic development (e.g., Asian economies). Motivated by this fact, this paper examines the time path of the saving rates between 1970 and 2010 in three...

The Chinese saving rate doubles in the past decades. In this paper I use a overlapping generation model to generate the household saving rate in China during 1980 to 2011. The model considers TFP, fiscal policy, uncertainty, demographical change and social security to simulate the saving rate....

This paper uses a new cross-country cross-industry dataset on investment in tangible and intangible assets for 18 European countries and the US. We set out a framework for measuring intangible investment and capital stocks and their effect on output, inputs and total factor productivity. The...