Ce Papier Examine Si des Chocs de Productivite Peuvent Reproduire la Correlation Tres Elevee Entre L'investissement et L'epargne Nationale Que L'om Trouve, Pour les Paus Industrialises, Dans un Modele Avec la Mobilite Parfaite des Capitaux et Aussi En Presence D'autres Types de Chocs. L'economie...

I present a simultaneous-equation model with which I estimate both direct and indirect effects of financial distortions in real interest and black-market exchange rates on saving, investment, export growth and output growth.

This paper investigates the determinants of real interest rates at world and country level. The starting point is the idea that the real interest rates reflect the interaction of desired saving and planned investment, using the framework developed by Barro and Sala-i- Martin (1990) and Barro (1992).

In two earlier studies, we established that, to some extent, liberalization of the financial system does matter in Nigeria and that operators of the banking system, as suppliers of credit, believe in the efficacy of the liberalization effort in stimulating deposit and promoting competition...

Our analysis shows that Pareto's instincts were right, for under certain assumptions, personal distributions of income tend to be similar even when the underlying functional determinants are quite different. We prove that if the initial functional income distribution is sufficiently "compact" -...