Effects of productivity growth on domestic savings across countries: Disentangling the roles of trend and cycle

Abhishek Kumar, Sushanta Mallick () and Kunal Sen

No wp-2020-155, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Resource mobilization continues to be an important policy challenge for developing economies, raising questions as to what determines differences in saving behaviour across countries. Using a panel of 47 economies with at least 40 years of continuous time series data, we causally identify, using a range of approaches, that higher productivity growth leads to greater savings, thereby contributing to higher investment.

Keywords: Saving; Productivity; Growth; Shocks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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