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Will women save more than men? : a theoretical model of savings and marriage

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Pereira, Alfredo M. - 2010

higher marriage rates and higher divorce rates will be associated with higher savings rates in the presence of economies of … marriage and with lower savings rates in the presence of diseconomies of marriage. In the context of traditional gender roles … traditional gender roles and marital status to understanding cross-country variation in gender differentials in savings behavior …

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Home bank intermediation of foreign direct investment

Poelhekke, Steven - 2011

This paper investigates the benefits of banks' direct investment in foreign subsidiaries and branches for non-financial multinationals. The paper builds on the literature on international banks which has primarily focused on the implications for host countries, rather than for its international...

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Can investments in emerging markets help to solve the aging problem?

Holzmann, Robert - 2000

Prefunding of pension commitments in OECD economies is increasingly seen as a central strategy to cope with the aging of their populations. This paper argues that investments in emerging markets can help at the margin but are unable to solve the demographic problem. While these investments bring...

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Family location and caregiving patterns from an international perspective

Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2010

This paper conducts a cross-national econometric analysis of intra-family location and caregiving patterns. First, we assess, from an international perspective, the relationship between family structure and the geographic proximity between adult children and their parents. We then examine...

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Reasons for the demise of interest : savings glut and secular stagnation or central bank policy?

Mayer, Thomas; Schnabl, Gunther - 2019

for the future (global savings glut). Low growth is linked to slowing population growth and a declining marginal … permanently. Furthermore, we find no empirical evidence for the global savings glut and secular stagnation hypotheses. Instead …

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Commodity price volatility, democracy and economic growth

Arezki, Rabah; Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2011

We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the impact of commodity price volatility on economic growth in a panel of up to 158 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main finding is that commodity price volatility leads to a significant increase in non-resource GDP growth in...

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Trade costs, trade balances and current accounts : an application of gravity to multilateral trade

Fazio, Giorgio (contributor); MacDonald, Ronald (contributor) - 2005

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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Pricing climate risk

Jensen, Svenn; Traeger, Christian - 2021

simple precautionary savings analysis to more complex economic interactions and it builds the economic intuition for policy …

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International reserves before and after the global crisis : is there no end to hoarding?

Aizenman, Joshua; Cheung, Yin-Wong; Itō, Hiro - 2015

We evaluate the impact of the global financial crisis (GFC) and recent structural changes in the patterns of hoarding international reserves (IR). We confirm that the determinants of IR hoarding evolve with developments in the global economy. During the pre-GFC period of 1999-2006, gross saving...

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The skyscraper revolution : global economic development and land savings

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Baum-Snow, Nathaniel; Jedwab, Remi - 2023

Tall buildings are central to facilitating sustainable urbanization and growth in cities worldwide. We estimate average elasticities of city population and built area to aggregate city building heights of 0.12 and -0.17, respectively, indicating that the largest global cities in developing...

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