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The Corporate Saving Glut and the Current Account in Germany

We investigate for Germany the positive correlation between the corporate savings glut in the non-financial corporate sector and the current account surplus from a capital account perspective. By employing sign restrictions our findings suggest that mostly labor market, world demand and financial friction shocks can account for the joint dynamics of excess corporate savings and the current account surplus. Private savings shocks, in contrast, cannot explain the correlation. We conclude that a corporate savings glut is a main driver of the current account surplus.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ifo Working Paper ; No. 280

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Business Fluctuations; Cycles
Current Account Adjustment; Short-term Capital Movements
Macroeconomic Issues of Monetary Unions
Thema
Current account
corporate savings
macro shocks

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Klug, Thorsten
Schuler, Tobias
Mayer, Eric
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2018

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Klug, Thorsten
  • Schuler, Tobias
  • Mayer, Eric
  • ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich

Entstanden

  • 2018

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