asymmetries of savings out of factor incomes. This generalized model helps to shed new light on a recent debate concerning the … the particular savings hypothesis. However, if savings out of capital income are substantial so that a certain threshold …

We study optimal savings in continuous time with exogenous transitions between employment and unemployment as the only …

study how cash in hand influences decisions in a different but very important domain: savings. Savings accounts are a … promising tool for reducing poverty, but the use of savings accounts is often puzzlingly low. Holding on to cash that needs to … be physically deposited into a savings account may increase the psychological costs of saving. This study experimentally …

Incomplete markets models imply heterogeneous household savings behaviour which in turn generates pecuniary … in the population, these savings externalities may contribute to inequality. Working with an open economy heterogenous … earnings processes of British households with university and non-university educated heads entail savings externalities that …

risk of workers, which mitigates their precautionary savings motive. Using a quantitative model analysis, we show that this …