Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/296874 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Discussion Paper No. 1231
Publisher: 
Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka
Abstract: 
The finding of Feldstein and Horioka (1980) that domestic saving and domestic investment are highly correlated across countries despite the rapid globalization and liberalization of financial markets in recent decades has been regarded as a Puzzle or Paradox. However, in this paper, we show that countries as a whole may not be able to transfer their capital abroad and that the Feldstein-Horioka Finding of domestic saving and domestic investment being highly correlated across countries may arise even if there are no frictions in financial markets and even if individual investors can freely transfer their capital abroad if there are frictions in goods markets such as transport costs, tariffs, nontariff barriers, the cost of regulatory compliance, etc. In fact, there is evidence that frictions in goods markets are a more serious impediment to countries as a whole being able to transfer their capital abroad than frictions in financial markets, especially in the short run.
Subjects: 
Capital controls
fallacy of composition
Feldstein-Horioka Finding
Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle or Paradox
frictions in financial markets
frictions in goods markets
global interest rate
globalization and liberalization of financial markets
interest parity
interest rate equalization
international capital flows
international capital mobility
saving-investment correlations
saving retention coefficient
trade costs
trade frictions
JEL: 
F15
F21
F32
F36
F41
G15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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