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Shifts in US savings : long-run asset accumulation versus consumption smoothing
Tanner, Evan - In: Applied economics 29 (1997) 8, pp. 989-999
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Do the sick retire early? : chronic illness, asset accumulation and early retirement
Miah, M. Solaiman; Wilcox-Gök, Virginia Louise - In: Applied economics 39 (2007) 13/15, pp. 1921-1936
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Re-examining the decline in the US saving rate : the impact of mortgage equity withdrawal
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Costantini, Mauro; Paradiso, … - 2012
In this paper we examine the role of mortgage equity withdrawal in explaining the decline of the US saving rate, since when house prices rise and mortgage rates are low, homeowners have an incentive to withdraw housing equity and this may affect the saving rate. We estimate a Vector Error...
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The relationship between income inequality and aggregate saving : an empirical analysis using cross-country panel data
Koo, Jaewoon; Song, Yunxing - In: Applied economics 48 (2016) 10/12, pp. 892-901
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The role of financial systems for cross-country differences in the link between income and consumption inequality
Gu, Xinhua; Zhang, Yang; Chang, Xiao - In: Applied economics 49 (2017) 24, pp. 2365-2378
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Estimating permanent income and wealth of the US farm households
Mishra, Ashok K.; Paudel, Krishna P. - In: Applied economics 43 (2011) 10/12, pp. 1521-1533
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Social security privatization and financial market risk : lessons from US financial history
Burtless, Gary - 2000
hypothetical pensions U.S. workers would have obtained between 1911 and 1999 if they had accumulated retirement savings in … with a new system of mandatory defined-contribution private pensions. Proponents claim that private plans offer better … present in certain types of public retirement system, but a public system has one important advantage over private pensions …
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Measuring ethno-linguistic affinity between nations
Groot, Olaf J. de - 2009
Research on ethno-linguistic ties has so far mostly focused on domestic measures of ethno-linguistic heterogeneity. Little attention has been given to the possibility that ethno-linguistic relations between countries may affect out- comes, particularly in a spatial econometric context. In this...
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Financing LNG projects and the role of long-term sales-and-purchase agreements
Ruester, Sophia - 2015
The financing of infrastructures is a major topic in recent energy policy debates. Project finance, as a specialized form of debt finance, thereby has become a well-established financing tool. This paper contributes a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the determinants of the debt ratio in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467102
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The effects of pricing waste generation : a synthetic control approach
Bueno, Matheus; Valente, Marica - 2018
To internalize pollution externalities into household waste generation, Unit Pricing Systems (UPS) have been adopted worldwide. This paper evaluates the causal effects of a UPS on the disposal of municipal solid waste in Trento, Italy. To account for policy endogeneity due to unobservables, we...
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