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privatization effects on savings in Eastern Europe, with limited evidence of positive savings effects in Latin America. These …
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utility function whose arguments are consumption and investment. They desire to accumulate wealth for its own sake - this is …
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In this paper we test the well-known hypothesis of Obstfeld and Rogoff (2000) that trade costs are the key to explaining the so-called Feldstein-Horioka puzzle. Using a gravity framework in an intertemporal context, we provide strong support for the hypothesis and we reconcile our results with...
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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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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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In this paper we analyze the relationship between unemployment and consumption. We study this relationship with panel data on households in five countries: Spain and Italy (the South), and Germany, Britain, and the US (the North). Our empirical results indicate that an increase in the duration...
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crisis. The paper recommends obligatory priv ate savings at a variable rate where the time path of the savings rate is chosen …
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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 …
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