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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779225603321

Autore

Cherif Reda

Titolo

The Volatility Trap : : Precautionary Saving, Investment, and Aggregate Risk / / Reda Cherif, Fuad Hasanov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2012

ISBN

1-4755-1887-0

1-4755-7069-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (23 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

HasanovFuad

Soggetti

Risk

Saving and investment

Investments: Commodities

Exports and Imports

Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics: Consumption

Saving

Wealth

Investment

Capital

Intangible Capital

Capacity

Intertemporal Consumer Choice

Life Cycle Models and Saving

Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity: General

Aggregate Factor Income Distribution

Current Account Adjustment

Short-term Capital Movements

Agriculture: General

International economics

Investment & securities

Precautionary savings

Income

Income shocks

Current account surpluses

Agricultural commodities

National accounts

Balance of payments

Commodities



Farm produce

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Abstract; Contents; Introduction; II. A "Store-or-Sow" Model of Precautionary Saving and Investment; III. Results and Implications; Figures; 1. Precautionary Saving and the Golden Rule Investment Rate; 2. A Phase Diagram of Precautionary Saving and Investment Rates; 3. Precautionary Saving and Investment Rates vs. Volatility of Permanent Shocks; 4. Precautionary Saving and Investment Rates vs. Volatility of Temporary Shocks; IV. An Empirical Relationship Among Investment, Saving, and Volatility; Tables; 1. Saving, Investment, and Volatility: Descriptive Statistics

5. Saving vs. Investment6. Saving vs. Investment-Saving Ratio; V. Concluding Remarks; 2. Panel Fixed Effects Regressions; References; Appendix Table. Average Investment, Saving, and Volatility (1970-2008)

Sommario/riassunto

We study the effects of permanent and temporary income shocks on precautionary saving and investment in a "store-or-sow" model of growth. High volatility of permanent shocks results in high precautionary saving in the safe asset and low investment, or a "volatility trap." Namely, big savers invest relatively little. In contrast, low volatility of permanent shocks leads to low precautionary saving and high or low investment, depending on the volatility of temporary shocks. Empirical evidence shows a nonlinear relationship between investment and saving and that investment is a hump-shaped function of the volatility of permanent shocks, as predicted by the model.