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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822905503321

Autore

Grigoli Francesco

Titolo

World Saving / / Francesco Grigoli, Alexander Herman, Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2014

ISBN

1-4983-9680-1

1-4983-0313-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (56 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

HermanAlexander

Schmidt-HebbelKlaus

Disciplina

339.43

Soggetti

Saving and investment

Consumption (Economics)

Savings accounts

Exports and Imports

Macroeconomics

'Panel Data Models

Spatio-temporal Models'

Macroeconomics: Consumption

Saving

Wealth

Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: General

Aggregate Factor Income Distribution

Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions

Empirical Studies of Trade

International economics

Private savings

Income

Personal income

Consumption

Terms of trade

Economics

Economic policy

nternational cooperation

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; I. Introduction; II. Private Saving Determinants; Tables; 1. Determinants of Private Saving in Previous Studies; III. Data and Stylized Facts; A. Sources and Construction; B. Stylized Facts; 2. Descriptive Statistics; 3. Correlation Matrix of Core Private Saving Determinants; Figures; 1. World Saving Rates, 1981-2012; 2. World Private Saving Rates, 1981-2012; 3. Pairwise Panel Correlations; IV. Empirical Strategy; V. Results; A. Baseline Specification; 4. Determinants of Private Saving, Different Estimators; B. Alternative Specifications

5. Determinants of Private Saving, Additional Explanatory VariablesC. Time Periods and Country Groups; 6. Determinants of Private Saving, Interactions; D. National Saving; E. Household and Corporate Saving; 7. Determinants of National Saving, Alternative Estimators; 8. Determinants of Household and Corporate Saving, Baseline Specification; 9. Determinants of Household and Corporate Saving, Additional Explanatory Variables; VI. Conclusions; Appendix I. Data; A. Concept Construction and Variable Generation; B. Data Replacement, Splicing, and Augmentation; C. Dataset Cleaning

Appendix II. Country GroupsA1. List of Countries; Appendix III. Contributions; A1. Average Contributions of the Fitted Values; References

Sommario/riassunto

This paper presents new evidence on the behavior of saving in the world, by extending previous empirical research in five dimensions. First, it is based on a very large and recent database, covering 165 countries from 1981 to 2012. Second, it conducts a robustness analysis across different estimation techniques. Third, the empirical search is expanded by including potential saving determinants identified by theory but not previously considered in the empirical literature. Fourth, the paper explores differences in saving behavior nesting the 2008-10 crisis period and four different country groups. Finally, it also searches for commonalities and differences in behavior across national, private, household, and corporate saving rates. The results confirm in part existing research, shed light on some ambiguous or contradictory findings, and highlight the role of neglected determinants. Compared to the literature, we find a larger number of significant determinants of saving rates, using different estimators, for different periods and country groups, and for different saving aggregates.