This paper analyzes the causes of rising savings rates for the corporate, government, and household sectors, which have … jointly contributed to the upsurge in aggregate savings in China in the past two decades. Government policies to rebalance the …

. In 2008, China's national savings rate soared to over 53 percent of its GDP, whereas its current account surplus exceeded … distortions. I document major trends in aggregate savings, investment, trade, and net foreign asset positions in China, and …

magnitude of the sensitivity of pay to stock market performance is comparable to the U.S. and Japan. Perhaps even more …

Many households have insufficient savings to handle moderate and routine consumption shocks. Many of these financially …-Linked Savings (PLS) accounts, that combine principal-security with lottery-type jackpots, can increase savings among these at …-risk households. Results from an online experiment show that the introduction of PLS accounts increase total savings and reduce …

This paper examines the relative savings position of migrant households in West Germany, paying particular attention to …), our findings reveal significant differences in the savings rates between foreign-born and Germanborn individuals. These … the determinants of immigrants’ savings rates reveal that intended return migration does not only affect remittances, but …

This paper analyses the savings behaviour of natives and immigrants in Germany. It is argued that uncertainty about … savings. Using the German Socio-economic Panel data it is shown that, although immigrants have lower levels of savings and are … less likely to have regular savings than natives, the gap is significantly narrowed once we take loan repayments and …