The Global Side of the Investment-Savings Puzzle

Joseph Byrne, Norbert Fiess and Giorgio Fazio

No 2008-22, SIRE Discussion Papers from Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE)

Abstract: In this paper we re-examine the long standing and puzzling correlation between national savings and investment in industrial countries. We apply an econometric methodology that allows us to separate idiosyncratic correlation at the country level from correlation at the global level. In a major break with the existing literature, we find no evidence of a long run relationship in the idiosyncratic components of savings and investment. We also find that the global components in savings and investments comove, indicating that they react to shocks of a global nature.

Keywords: Savings; Investment; Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle; Panel Nonstationarity; Principal Components (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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Journal Article: The Global Side of the Investment-Saving Puzzle (2009)
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Working Paper: The Global Side of the Investments-Savings Puzzle (2008)
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