Search Results - subject:"dissaving"

Do the retired elderly in europe decumulate their wealth? : the importance of bequest motives, precautionary saving, public pensions, and homeownership

Horioka, Charles; Ventura, Luigi - 2022

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Do the retired elderly in Europe decumulate their wealth? : the importance of bequest motives, precautionary saving, public pensions, and homeownership

Horioka, Charles; Ventura, Luigi - In: Review of income and wealth 70 (2024) 1, pp. 187-212

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014536101

Does the selfish life-cycle model apply in the case of Japan?

Horioka, Charles - 2020

In this paper, we first provide a brief exposition of the simplest version of the selfish life cycle model or hypothesis, which is undoubtedly the most widely used theoretical model of household behavior in economics, and then survey the literature on household saving behavior in Japan (with...

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The wealth decumulation behavior of the retired elderly in Italy: The importance of bequest motives and precautionary saving

Ventura, Luigi; Horioka, Charles - 2020

Bank of Italy. We find that, on average, the retired elderly in Italy are decumulating their wealth (dissaving) but that … retired elderly in Italy suggests that the lower than expected wealth decumulation rates and dissaving of the retired elderly …

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Is the selfish life-cycle model more applicable in Japan and, if so, why? A literature survey

Horioka, Charles - 2020

The selfish life-cycle model or hypothesis is, together with the dynasty or altruism model, the most widely used theoretical model of household behavior in economics, but does this model apply in the case of a country like Japan, which is said to have closer family ties than other countries? In...

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