Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/22011 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Economics Working Paper No. 2006-06
Publisher: 
Kiel University, Department of Economics, Kiel
Abstract: 
The low capital mobility among OECD countries, signalled by a high saving-investment (SI) relation and known as the Feldstein-Horioka puzzle, has triggered a lively discussion in the empirical literature. In this paper, we compare between, pooled, time and country dependent specifications of the SI relation via cross-validation criteria. It is found that the country dependent model is best performing among the four. Secondly, error correction models are uniformly outperformed by static panel models. Thirdly, via scatter diagrams of cross section specific estimates we observe a different time evolution of SI relations for developed and developing economies.
Subjects: 
Saving-investment relation
Feldstein-Horioka puzzle
model comparison
JEL: 
C33
E22
E21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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