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investment rates observed in OECD countries. We find that once controlling for general equilibrium effects the saving …This paper shows that general equilibrium effects can partly rationalize the high correlation between saving and …
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In this paper we test the well-known hypothesis of Obstfeld and Rogoff (2000) that trade costs are the key to explaining the so-called Feldstein-Horioka puzzle. Using a gravity framework in an intertemporal context, we provide strong support for the hypothesis and we reconcile our results with...
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coefficients are much lower, a puzzling result possibly explained by endogenous intersectoral saving and investment links; (iii …
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correlations between savings and investment observed within countries. A large literature has emerged to investigate this issue … answers remain by and large elusive. Since we argue that the savings and investment series in our panel are integrated of … savings and investment. Our particular contributions are (a) to consider the puzzle comprehensively, using both time series …
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in Gourinchas and Jeanne (2013) to compute regional investment and saving wedges. By relating those frictions with TFP … catch-up parameters, we find an investment and a saving puzzle: regions that caught up relative to the rest of China seem to … have lower investment rate (higher investment tax) and higher saving (lower saving tax) relative to the prediction of the …
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To enhance the inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) and ultimately to increase the economic growth, the countries …
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We examine the relationship between investment and saving for a cross section of European countries before and during … the euro crisis. Investment is positively and significantly related to saving, and this relationship is stronger during …
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within the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) economies. With a re-specified inter-temporal consumption framework, the savings-investment … to the level of domestic investment in the sub-region. …
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Based on the relation between investment and domestic saving proposed by Feldstein and Horioka (1980) to verify capital … autoregressive (SVAR) involving investment and saving in order to evaluate the effect of exogenous shocks through impulse response … showed that investment is sensitive to contemporaneous innovation on saving and this effect lasts for a long time. Regarding …
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This paper shows that the Feldsteins & Horioka (1980) test does not measure capital mobility, but just the variability between domestic and external savings. Furthermore, it concludes that the Coakley, Kulasi & Smith (1996) test for current account solvency, is a necessary, but not sufficient,...
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