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Capital mobility in Asia: evidence from bounds testing of cointegration between savings and investment

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  • Tantatape Brahmasrene
  • Komain Jiranyakul

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This paper explores the international capital mobility in North Asia (South Korea and Taiwan), South Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand) and India. In particular, the Feldstein–Horioka puzzle, which states domestic investment and savings are highly and positively correlated, was examined for cointegration using an autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing procedure. The results did not show a positive correlation between savings and investment. There was essentially no relationship at level between savings and investment in all eight cases. Thirteen out of 16 structural break tests or 81.25% indicate no structural breaks. The analysis concluded with certain limitations that there is high capital mobility in the economies under study.

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  • Tantatape Brahmasrene & Komain Jiranyakul, 2009. "Capital mobility in Asia: evidence from bounds testing of cointegration between savings and investment," Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(3), pages 262-269.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rjapxx:v:14:y:2009:i:3:p:262-269
    DOI: 10.1080/13547860902975077
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