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Heer, Burkhard (contributor); Süssmuth, Bernd (contributor) - 2006

We find that inflation did not unanimously decrease savings in the US during the postwar period. This result is …

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What is an adequate standard of living during retirement?

Binswanger, Johannes; Schunk, Daniel - 2009

Many economists and policy-makers argue that households do not save enough to maintain an adequate standard of living during retirement. However, there is no consensus on the answer to the underlying question about what this standard should be, despite the fact that it is crucial for the design...

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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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Holes in the dike : the global savings glut, US house prices and the long shadow of banking deregulation

Hoffmann, Mathias; Stewen, Iryna - 2015

We explore empirically how capital inflows into the US and financial deregulation within the United States interacted in driving the run-up (and subsequent decline) in US housing prices over the period 1990-2012. To obtain an ex ante measure of financial liberalization, we focus on the history...

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Assessing the maintenance of savings sufficiency over the first decade of retirement

Haveman, Robert H.; Holden, Karen C.; Wolfe, Barbara L.; … - 2005

The adequacy of retirement savings is central to the U.S. debate over the effects of Social Security reform and pension …

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Explaining fluctuations in the thrift savings fund daily balance at U.S. treasury

Skidmore, Mark; Alvayay Torrejón, Camila; Pare, David - 2021

voluntary federal government employee retirement savings vehicle called the Thrift Savings Plan. The G-Fund is managed as …

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Lower oil prices and the U.S. economy : is this time different?

Baumeister, Christiane; Kilian, Lutz - 2017

-oil related investment, of an increase in household savings, or of households deleveraging. …

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Fiscal sustainability and low interest rates : a note

Werding, Martin - 2021

In this paper, I demonstrate that an indicator which is commonly used to assess the long-term fiscal sustainability of public finances in EU member states (“S2”) is also defined if government borrowing rates are assumed to be permanently lower than the growth rate of GDP. I illustrate this...

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Does the expansion of public long-term care funding affect savings behaviour?

Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2016

of long-term care subsidies on savings is far from clear. In this paper we take advantage of a policy intervention to … study the effect on savings and savings behaviour of the progressive introduction of a public long-term care subsidy … Spanish old-age dependants to obtain care support, and was orthogonal to household savings. We draw on a difference …

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Quantitative easing : the challenge for households long-term savings and financial security

Thimann, Christian - 2016

reason is that prices for the two most important long-term savings objectives - housing and healthcare - are rising …-term savings objectives and see purchasing power decline, or they compromise financial security and invest in highly volatile …

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