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The Investment-Saving Puzzle In Mena Countries: Disentangling Gross Saving

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  • Marwan Alzoubi

    (A1Zaytoonah University of Jordan)

  • Hamad A. Kasasbeh

    (A1Zaytoonah University of Jordan)

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The paper disentangles gross savings into government and private savings and investigate their impact on gross investment. Our methodology is based on a balanced panel of four MENA countries (Tunisia, Jordan, Egypt and Leganon) for the period 2000-2017 by employing the Panel Vector Autoregressive Model (PVAR). Our findings show that government savings as a ratio of GDP does not have any impact on investment while private savings as a ratio of GDP does. Both variables exhibit the correct signs. The results also show that mobility of private savings is high and seemingly statistically inconsistent with the Fielstein and Horioka (1980) puzzle. Our paper also reveals that even though OECD countries are more open than our sample countries, the higher capital mobility of our sample is driven by the economic and political instability in the region.

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  • Marwan Alzoubi & Hamad A. Kasasbeh, 2021. "The Investment-Saving Puzzle In Mena Countries: Disentangling Gross Saving," Ekonomski pregled, Hrvatsko društvo ekonomista (Croatian Society of Economists), vol. 72(5), pages 774-795.
    • Handle: RePEc:hde:epregl:v:72:y:2021:i:5:p:774-795
    DOI: 10.32910/ep.72.5.6
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    Keywords

    Gross Investment; Government Savings; Private Saving; Governance; Vector Autoregressive Model;
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    JEL classification:

    • E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
    • E22 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity
    • E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory

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