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Population Aging and International Capital Flows
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Population Aging and International Capital Flows

David Domeij and Martin Flodén
International Economic Review (Philadelphia), Vol.47(3), pp.1013-1032
2006-08

Abstract

current account international capital mobility demographics Feldstein-Horioka puzzle E22 F21 F41 F47
We use the neoclassical growth framework to model international capital flows in a world with exogenous demographic change. We compare model implications and actual current account data and find that the model explains a small but significant fraction of capital flows between OECD countries, in particular after 1985.

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