Note sur les conséquences globales de la reconstruction de l'Europe de l'Est et l'épargne mondiale

Jean-Paul Fitoussi and Edmund Phelps

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Abstract: The investment needed to rebuild several of the economies of Eastern Europe will most probably be fairly important. This paper tries to answer the question of the adequacy of Western saving in the light of this new development. We argue that the world will suffer from a rise in the real rate of interest during a transitory period when an amount of capital will be reallocated to those parts of the East desiring and seen to be credit-worthy of possession of such capital. We then study the causes and consequences of the elevation of the real rate of interest, through the theoretical perspective of models of economic growth. Because Europe and the rest of the world will not be presumably equally affected, we reason in the framework of a two-countries, two- sectors model. We finally deal with the question of what the rest of the world should do, if anything, in response to the shocks coming from Eastern Europe.

Keywords: Épargne mondiale; Reconstruction de l'Europe de l'Est (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990-11
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Published in Revue de l'OFCE, 1990, 34, pp.265 - 279. ⟨10.3406/ofce.1990.1228⟩

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DOI: 10.3406/ofce.1990.1228

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