International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics
Vol. 2, No. 6, June, 2015
ISSN 2383-2126 (Online)
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Investigating Capital Mobility and Saving-
Investment Relationship: Case Study of MENA
Countries
Mansoor Mahini Zadeh
Assistant Professor of Economics, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran
Elahe Mahmoodi
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Ph.D. Student in Economics, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran
Majid Mahmoodi
Faculty Member, Velayat University, Iranshahr, Iran
Abstract
This paper determines the degree of capital mobility and saving- investment
association by using the Feldstein- Horioka (1980) approach among Middle
East and North African (MENA) countries during 1990-2011. According to the
Feldstein- Horioka hypothesis, in a country with high degree of capital
mobility there should be no relationship between domestic saving and domestic
investment and inversely, in a country with low degree of capital mobility there
is a high correlation between domestic saving and domestic investment. Using
panel data and employing Random effect Model to estimate the model, the
obtained results show that capital is highly mobile in these countries.
Keywords: Capital mobility, Feldestein and Horioka approach, MENA
region, Panel Data
Cite this article: Mahini Zadeh, M., Mahmoodi, E., & Mahmoodi, M. (2015). Investigating
Capital Mobility and Saving- Investment Relationship: Case Study of MENA Countries.
International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics, 2(6), 517-526.
Introduction
Rapid economic liberalization in emerging markets in the late 1980s and the early
1990s through technological progresses in transportation systems and communication,
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Corresponding author’s email: mahmoodi.elahe@gmail.com