This paper estimates the contribution of net saving for each of twelve motives to overall household saving in Japan …

"Comparative Survey of Savings in Japan and the United States", a binational survey conducted in 1996 by the Institute for Posts … light on which model of household behavior applies in the two countries. …

"Comparative Survey of Savings in Japan and the United States", a binational survey conducted in 1996 by the Institute for Posts … light on which model of household behavior applies in the two countries. …

This paper estimates the contribution of net saving for each of twelve motives to overall household saving in Japan …

saving behavior of the household sector. Notable feature of our modeling is that savings are divided into financial and real … savings components. This approach is useful since the motivations for savings depends on what life stage the household stands … and each motivati9on is realized as a special form of savings. In particular we can incorporate the change in the age …

thereof using micro data from the "U.S.- Japan Comparison Survey of Saving," a binational household survey conducted in 1996 …

effect; (ii) permanent productivity shocks deteriorate the current account; and (iii) savings and investment tend to co …