TY - JOUR AU - Giannone, Domenico AU - Lenza, Michele TI - The Feldstein-Horioka fact JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 15519 PY - 2009 Y2 - November 2009 DO - 10.3386/w15519 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15519 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15519.pdf N1 - Author contact info: Domenico Giannone Amazon.com 300 Boren Ave N. Seattle, WA 98109 E-Mail: dgiannon2@gmail.com Michele Lenza European Central Bank Sonnemannstrasse 20 60314 Frankfurt An Main Germany E-Mail: michele.lenza@ecb.int M1 - published as Domenico Giannone, Michele Lenza. "The Feldstein-Horioka Fact," in Lucrezia Reichlin and Kenneth D. West, organizers, "NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2009" University of Chicago Press (2010) M3 - presented at "ISOM", June 12-13, 2009 AB - This paper shows that general equilibrium effects can partly rationalize the high correlation between saving and investment rates observed in OECD countries. We find that once controlling for general equilibrium effects the saving-retention coefficient remains high in the 70's but decreases considerably since the 80's, consistently with the increased capital mobility in OECD countries. ER -