first clarify the logic of applying cointegration methods to the RERI and propose an alternative way of testing the …

How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system … these letters on the behavior of individuals. We find an increase in tax-deductible private retirement savings and provide … evidence that this is not due to a crowding-out of other forms of savings. We also show that labor earnings, i.e. the most …

, capital controls, and other government distortions of international transactions, may reduce private savings rates. A two … that there is a significant and robust relationship between economic liberalization and lower rates of savings. One … implication is that at least part of the decline in savings rates in some countries over the past two decades may be explained by …

This paper scrutinizes the role of prolonged, expansionary monetary policy on the savings behavior of Japanese … households, focusing on the dramatic change of the household savings rate since 1998, from high to low savings. The literature … channel but not the labor income channel. There is also evidence that rising wealth boosts savings. …

equivalence: If an efficient path has constant (gross and net of population growth) savings rates, then population growth must be …, then the (gross and net of population growth) savings rates converge asymptotically to constants. …