What's the difference? Private Savings Pre and Post Great Recession

I investigate whether the determinants of Private Savings changed for G7 countries during the Great Recession. I do this by controlling for many of the key determinants of private savings from previous literature and then adding control variables for each country and adding a post-recession variable...

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Main Author: Padilla, Daniel F
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2017
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Online Access:http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1493
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2547&context=cmc_theses
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Summary:I investigate whether the determinants of Private Savings changed for G7 countries during the Great Recession. I do this by controlling for many of the key determinants of private savings from previous literature and then adding control variables for each country and adding a post-recession variable (2009-2015). In my third and final regression, after controlling for both countries and country multiplied by time, I found evidence that the private savings rates dropped after the Great Recession.