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What happened to savings during the financial crisis: a dynamic panel analysis of Asian-5 countries.


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Thanoon, Marwan Abdul-Malik and Baharumshah, Ahmad Zubaidi (2007) What happened to savings during the financial crisis: a dynamic panel analysis of Asian-5 countries. Economic Change and Restructuring, 38 (3-4). pp. 257-275. ISSN 1573-9414

Abstract

This article examines the determinants of saving rates in five Asian (Asian-5; Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand South Korea and the Philippines) countries over the 1970-2000 period. The focus is on the relationship between savings rates and foreign capital inflows before and in the financial crises. Major findings from the dynamic panel regressions are: (i) foreign savings depresses domestic savings ratio in the short as well as in the long run and the offset appears to be larger in the crisis period; (ii) real interest has a small negative effect on savings in the short and long run; (iii) the demographic factor explains a large portion of the long run trends but not the short-term fluctuations in savings rates; and (iv) high savings ratios in the countries studied is linked to the export sector. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2006.


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Item Type: Article
Subject: Economic development - Asia
Subject: Saving and investment - Asia
Subject: International finance
Divisions: Faculty of Economics and Management
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10644-006-9006-9
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: Economic growth; Foreign capital; Savings
Depositing User: Azwana Abdul Rahman
Date Deposited: 30 Oct 2011 00:03
Last Modified: 21 Jan 2016 01:37
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URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/18360
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