the elderly. This study suggests that these demographic trends may lead to a decline in the G-7 private savings rate after …

This paper explores how tax policy affects the level and allocation of national savings in the United States. It argues … that the effect of taxes on the overall private saving level is relatively small and uncertain and that raising public … saving is the most direct and efficient way to raise national saving. However, the tax system has a powerful impact on the …

A firm theoretical basis for the empirical relationship between dependency rates and savings behavior in developing …, and on the savings responsiveness to changes in the real interest rate …

national savings. Illustrative calculations based on two alternative frameworks indicate that a net national saving rate …The U.S. national savings rate has declined in the 1980s, with both public and private components falling. This paper … discusses that decline and whether a policy response is needed. The drop in the private savings rate appears to reflect factors …

This paper develops and tests a model of Japan’s household savings rate, based on the life-cycle hypothesis that the … primary motive for savings is provision for retirement. The paper shows that Japan’s high household savings rate in recent … improvements in public pension benefits and the aging of the population. It projects that the savings rate will decline …

taxation as tools for augmenting national saving--an issue related to Ricardian equivalence. The theoretical analysis shows … equivalent in terms of their impact on national saving …

This paper extends recent work by Feldstein and Horioka (1980) and Bayoumi (1990), and examines saving … non-EMS countries. It is seen that the EMS countries exhibit much lower saving-investment correlations than their non …