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Emerging markets are more volatile and face different types of shocks, in size and nature, compared to their developed counterparts. Accurate identification of the stochastic properties of shocks is difficult. We show evidence suggesting that uncertainty about the underlying stochastic process...
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This paper studies the effect of demographic change on national saving, global interest rates, and international capital flows, focusing on the role of the public pension system. We develop a small open economy overlapping generations model to illustrate the channels through which demographic...
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This paper contributes to the debate on the relationship between public-capital accumulation and private investment in … the past three decades, we study whether public investment in recent years has become more or less complementary to … private investment in comparison to the period before 1980. Second, we construct a novel data-set of quarterly aggregate …
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variables move over time and analyzes how they influence macroeconomic variables such as economic growth, inflation, savings and … investment, and fiscal balances, from an empirical perspective. Based on empirical findings-particularly regarding inflation …
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reallocated from the private to the public sectors, reducing investment and deepening the recessions even further. To account for …. This implies that domestic debt purchases displace productive investment. The model shows that these purchases reduce …
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rather than a greater 'effort' to save it. Finally, we find evidence that, while savings during the boom help to increase … post-boom income, the composition of such savings matters. Specifically, in past episodes, savings allocated to foreign … asset accumulation appear to have contributed more to post-boom income than those devoted to domestic investment …
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This paper examines the extent of international financial integration, and its consequences for the current account. The evidence indicates that financial liberalization in the 1970s and 1980s has resulted in a substantial movement towards closer integration of world capital markets. By reducing...
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This paper extends recent work by Feldstein and Horioka (1980) and Bayoumi (1990), and examines saving-investment … non-EMS countries. It is seen that the EMS countries exhibit much lower saving-investment correlations than their non …
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The increase in the U.S. public debt over the past twelve years raises questions about its implications for investment …
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This paper explores, from an investment-saving perspective, the factors underlying the persistent widening of the …
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