What does the saving-investment (SI) relation really measure and how should the SI relation be measured? These are two …

effect on investment, and a (fairly) small significant negative effect on domestic savings. The aggregate result is thus an … considered, a small positive and statistically significant investment effect is found, together with a small negative effect on … impact on investment …

investment; social welfare policy for encouraging contractual saving and developing long-term domestic institutional investors …The main objective of this paper is to understand domestic savings and investment in Indonesia. The level of savings in …-banking savings. This leads to the scarcity of long-term savings which are essential for long-term investment, especially in …

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. …

story. The drop of the US saving rate has played a significant role in the onset of imbalances in the United States and the … attracting the external savings that help finance the American investment and its current account. The excess of global savings … is also a factor to be taken into account since it supports capital flows to the United States and investment in this …

economists identify saving and the credit supply by interpreting the macroeconomic saving-investment identity as a budget … constraint. According to that interpretation, more saving through lower consumption (and government spending) leads to a higher … supply of credit and thus more funds to be invested by firms for investment. The paper shows that proponents of this theory …

argue that there is much confusion about key macroeconomic concepts like saving, investment and finance. This confusion is … best summarised in the statement "saving finances investment". After clearly defining the accounting relationships between … lending, financial saving and physical investment it will be shown that this is a nonsense statement. The theory behind it …

domestic saving appears to be a major constraint to higher investment rates in Brazil. Due to high levels of current …Low investment rates are limiting Brazil’s future potential growth rate. This paper analyses a number of potential … reasons for these low investment rates and discusses policy options to achieve faster capital accumulation. A shortage of …