demonstrate how a sharp reduction in voluntary pension savings is partly offset by increased repayments on mortgage loans. …Measuring the effect of an unanticipated reduction in tax credits on pension savings, this paper shows that individuals … subsidies for saving in pension accounts only affect total individual savings to a limited extent, but unlike prior research …

Using Danish household level data, we find that a relatively large share of total interest-only mortgage debt is held …-only loans do not fully use the lower instalments to increase their savings or to amortise more expensive debt. This is in … type in Denmark, and the largest difference is found for those families who have the lowest savings propensity, and those …

Historically high household debt in several economies is calling for a deleveraging, but according to some economists …, this paper finds evidence of a negative relationship between changes of household debt-to-income ratios and saving rates … suggest that the economic cost associated with household deleveraging may be overestimated and motivate a deleveraging via …

across states shows that the rise in top income shares can explain almost all of the accumulation of household debt held as a … financial asset by the household sector. Since the Great Recession, the saving glut of the rich has been financing government …

between household debt levels, financial stability risks, and the ongoing implications of the ‘debt overhang’ for economic … growth. However, accurately measuring the household debt burden remains problematic. Aggregate measures of household … indebtedness (e.?g. household liabilities relative to income) fail to fully capture the debt servicing burdens of households …