Singapore: Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund

No 2006/151, IMF Staff Country Reports from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: This Selected Issues paper examines the behavior of savings and investment from an Asian and Singaporean perspective. It builds and estimates two econometric models that relate savings and investment to a range of macroeconomic and structural variables. The paper examines the relationship between labor market developments and private consumption behavior, and notes that employment uncertainty did have a significant negative impact on consumption and raised precautionary savings. It also examines quantitative, industry-level measures of the intensity of domestic competition in the manufacturing and services sectors during the past two decades in Singapore.

Keywords: ISCR; CR; Singapore economy; investment; saving; labor market uncertainty; saving-investment balance; investment rate; P-AC markup; products industry; Labor markets; Private consumption; Income; Unemployment rate; Consumption; Asia and Pacific; Global (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34
Date: 2006-05-04
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