Savings, Growth and Capital Markets Imperfections: The Case of Borrowing Constraints

1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose de Gregorio
2002 ◽  
Vol 47 (01) ◽  
pp. 129-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHERN WOON LAM ◽  
BASANT K. KAPUR

The neutrality result that total private savings (voluntary and compulsory) are invariant to a change in the employee's CPF contribution rate has been derived by Hoon (1991) and Liew (2000), both of whom assumed perfect capital markets. It was shown by Lim (1994) to hold in a model with borrowing constraints as long as the latter are nonbinding. In this article, we integrate the phenomena of income uncertainty (from Liew) and borrowing constraints (from Lim) in a stochastic, intertemporal optimisation model. We demonstrate the existence of precautionary savings and, contrary to received thinking, the nonneutrality result of total savings to the employee's CPF contribution rate even for workers with positive voluntary savings. The broader implications of this result are also discussed.


2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 318-346
Author(s):  
SANTANU CHATTERJEE

The choice between private and government provision of a productive public good like infrastructure (public capital) is examined in the context of an endogenously growing open economy. The accumulation of public capital need not require government provision, in contrast to the standard assumption in the literature. Even with an efficient government, the relative costs and benefits of government and private provision depend crucially on the economy's underlying structural conditions and borrowing constraints in international capital markets. Countries with limited substitution possibilities and large production externalities may benefit from governments encouraging private provision of public capital through targeted investment subsidies. By contrast, countries with flexible substitution possibilities and relatively smaller externalities may benefit either from governments directly providing public capital or from regulation of private providers. The transitional dynamics also are shown to depend on the underlying elasticity of substitution and the size of the production externality.


2014 ◽  
pp. 4-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Idrisov ◽  
S. Sinelnikov-Murylev

The paper analyzes the inconsequence and problems of Russian economic policy to accelerate economic growth. The authors consider three components of growth rate (potential, Russian business cycle and world business cycle components) and conclude that in order to pursue an effective economic policy to accelerate growth, it has to be addressed to the potential (long-run) growth component. The main ingredients of this policy are government spending restructuring and budget institutions reform, labor and capital markets reforms, productivity growth.


2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Stewart ◽  
Romain Despalins ◽  
Inna Remizova

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