Two of the most discussed issues triggered by the so called Feldstein-Horioka puzzle in international macroeconomics are: What does the saving-investment (SI) relation really measure and how should the SI relation be measured? The first contribution of this study is to develop a new variant of...

We investigate for 26 OECD economies if their current account imbalances are driven by stochastic trends. Standard ADF results are contrasted with tests accounting for the bounded support of the current account. Neglecting the latter feature might give misleading results in the sense that ADF...

We investigate for 26 OECD economies if their current account imbalances are driven by stochastic trends. Standard ADF results are contrasted with tests accounting for the bounded support of the current account. Neglecting the latter feature might give misleading results in the sense that ADF...