Paper #1803

Títol:

The global financial resource curse

Autors:

Gianluca Benigno, Luca Fornaro i Martin Wolf

Data:

Desembre 2019

Resum:

Since the late 1990s, the United States has received large capital ows from developing countries - a phenomenon known as the global saving glut - and experienced a productivity growth slowdown. Motivated by these facts, we provide a model connecting international financial integration and global productivity growth. The key feature is that the tradable sector is the engine of growth of the economy. Capital ows from developing countries to the United States boost demand for U.S. non-tradable goods, inducing a reallocation of U.S. economic activity from the tradable sector to the non-tradable one. In turn, lower profits in the tradable sector lead firms to cut back investment in innovation. Since innovation in the United States determines the evolution of the world technological frontier, the result is a drop in global productivity growth. This effect, which we dub the global financial resourse curse, can help explain why the global saving glut has been accompanied by subdued investment and growth, in spite of low global interest rates.

Paraules clau:

global saving glut, global productivity growth, international financial integration, capital flows, U.S. productivity growth slowdown, low global interest rates, Bretton Woods II, export-led growth

Codis JEL:

E44, F21, F41, F43, F62, O24, O31

Àrea de Recerca:

Macroeconomia i Economia Internacional

Publicat a:

American Economic Review, 115 (1): 220–62.

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