cycle. Decreasing discounting helps a canonical life-cycle model to explain the household saving puzzles of undersaving when …

households, focusing on the dramatic change of the household savings rate since 1998, from high to low savings. The literature … monetary policy had a significant impact on Japan’s household behavior via the interest rate channel and the redistribution …This paper scrutinizes the role of prolonged, expansionary monetary policy on the savings behavior of Japanese …

This paper develops a pseudo-panel approach to examine household electricity demand behaviour through the household … electricity consumption follows an inverted U-shaped distribution as a function of the age of the household's head. Most notably … outcome has important implications for policy-making. Any public policy aimed at reducing household energy consumption should …

across states shows that the rise in top income shares can explain almost all of the accumulation of household debt held as a … financial asset by the household sector. Since the Great Recession, the saving glut of the rich has been financing government …

This paper investigates the impact of public employment on household saving rates in China using representative … household-level data. After controlling for a series of variables such as income, risk attitude, financial literacy, and … to a better understanding of Chinese household saving rates, which is of great importance given their extremely high …

We examine the effects of monetary policy on household self-assessed financial stress and durable consumption using … panel data from eighteen annual waves of the British Household Panel Survey. For identification, we exploit random variation … in household exposure to interest rates generated by the random timing of household interview dates with respect to …

are important properties of the data. In comparison, the representative household version of the model cannot generate any …