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Saving Puzzles and Saving Policies in the United States

Lusardi, Annamaria - 2001

In the past two decades the widely reported personal saving rate in the United States has dropped from double digits to below zero. First, we attempt to account for the decline in the National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA) saving rate. The macroeconomic literature suggests that about half...

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Resolving the Global Imbalance : The Dollar and the U.S. Saving Rate

Feldstein, Martin S. - 2008

rate. So a rise will be driven by higher household savings of the coming years as the two primary forces that depressed … savings in recent years are reversed: the exceptionally rapid rise in household wealth and the high level of mortgage …

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Endogenous Discounting, the World Saving Glut and the U.S. Current Account

Choi, Horag - 2007

We study the evolution of the U.S. current account in a two-country dynamic stochastic endowment model in which a single non-state contingent bond is the only internationally traded asset. The paper focuses on the world `saving glut' as the primary cause of continual deterioration in the current...

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International comparisons of household saving

Poterba, James M. (contributor) - 1994

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Capitalizing China

Fan, Joseph P. H. (contributor); Morck, Randall (contributor) - 2013

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Public Policies and Private Saving in Mexico

Feldstein, Martin - 1999

Increasing the rate of saving is an important priority for many emerging market countries. This paper focuses on Mexico and discusses a variety of policies through which the government of Mexico could stimulate a higher rate of saving. These ideas are building blocks rather than an overall plan....

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Education and Saving : The Long-Term Effects of High School Financial Curriculum Mandates

Bernheim, B. Douglas - 1997

Over the last forty years, the majority of states have adopted consumer education policies, and a sizable minority have specifically mandated that high school students receive instruction on topics related to household financial decision-making (budgeting so forth). In this paper, we attempt to...

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Why are Saving Rates so Different Across Countries? : An International Comparative Analysis

Edwards, Sebastian - 1995

This paper analyzes the determinants of savings in the world economy, and discusses why saving ratios have been so … uneven across countries. A distinction is made between private and government savings, using panel data for 36 countries …, from 1970 to 1992. In particular, it is assumed that government savings are not completely exogenous, and respond to both …

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Saving and Growth : A Reinterpretation

Carroll, Christopher D. - 1993

We examine the relationship between income growth and saving using both cross-country and household data. At the aggregate level, we find that growth Granger causes saving, but that saving does not Granger cause growth. Using household data, we find that households with predictably higher income...

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Saving, Growth, and Aging in Taiwan

Deaton, Angus - 1993

This paper examines issues of household saving, growth. and aging in Taiwan. The Taiwanese patterns of high income growth, declines in fertility, and increases in life expectancy all have implications for life-cycle saving. We use data from fifteen consecutive household income and expenditure...

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