SAVING DOES NOT EQUAL INVESTMENT John Maynard Keynes confused economists and politicians all over the world when he … wrote, “Saving is necessary to equal investment” together with a few equations to confirm his idea and finally concluding … that S = I. There have been repeated discussions about how saving can equal investment, accidentally or with certainty. We …

correlation between the return on housing investment and consumption not only implies positive relationship between the portfolio … share of housing investment and excess return but also renders the housing wealth inappropriate in consumption smoothing. We …A house is generally considered as a 'roof over one's head', however, housing can be regarded as an investment or asset …

have an incentive to signal that he is in great need by saving more than he otherwise would have done. …

sources of this capital? We are talking about household saving, now. In the relation with the development of rural industries … there is a need to explore the behavior of this kind of saving in order to increase the role of rural financial institutions … saving more in the non-bank financial institution than in the banking institution, included the Village Units of Bank Rakyat …

consumption, leisure and saving until one or both agents are better off being single for at least one period. In this event, if … married, otherwise they will split and be single for at least one period. Single agents choose consumption, leisure, saving … and consumption smoothing motives for both singles and couples. For singles, saving affects and are affected by the …

The U.S. national saving rate has been declining since the 1960s while the share of consumption in output has been … quantitative findings indicate that the standard neoclassical growth model is able to generate saving rates and consumption that …