savings. In line with life-cycle theory, we found that longevity increases saving ratios. …

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 …

addition, currency stability and expansionary money supply (M1) growth are other concerns of the BSP, though significantly so …

Using a macroeconometric framework, this paper analyses relationships among money, barter and inflation in Russia … findings suggest that barter has resulted partly from output losses and partly from a reduction in real money balances, but to … a lesser extent. There is some evidence that the effect of barter on prices is less than that of money. We also find …

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 …