privatization effects on savings in Eastern Europe, with limited evidence of positive savings effects in Latin America. These …Analyses of pension funding effects on economic growth need to differentiate between "carve-out" pension privatization … evidence that pension privatization in Latin America and Eastern Europe was associated with higher economic growth. The result …

Home ownership is widely stimulated by policy yet its effects are poorly understood. Exploiting privatization decisions …

This paper studies the economic benefits of home ownership. Exploiting a quasi-experiment surrounding privatization … of housing wealth are concentrated among the home owners who sell subsequent to privatization and among those who receive …

decades. Voluntary savings for retirement will therefore gain more and more relevance in order to maintain one's standard of … living during retirement. This article examines the savings behavior for retirement on an individual level in Germany. As a …

This paper studies the economic benefits of home ownership. Exploiting a quasi-experiment surrounding privatization … of housing wealth are concentrated among the home owners who sell subsequent to privatization and among those who receive …

tap into the pool of both public and private long-term savings in order to channel the latter into much needed …