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Spantig, Lisa - 2019

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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Unemployment and Consumption: Are Job Losses Less Painful near the Mediterranean?

Bentolila, Samuel; Ichino, Andrea - 2000

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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Combining Dutch presumptive capital income tax and US qualified intermediaries to set forth a new system of international savings taxation

Gérard, Marcel (contributor) - 2004

interesting innovations and suggestions concerning how to tax international savings. We examine some of these advances, which we … then use to set forth and investigate a proposal for European and international savings taxation. That proposition combines …

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Sustaining social security

Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín (contributor); … - 2005

This paper analyzes the sustainability of intergenerational transfers in politico-economic equilibrium. Embedding electoral competition for the votes of old and young households in the standard Diamond (1965) OLG model, we find that intergenerational transfers naturally arise in a Markov perfect...

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Why are the wealthiest so wealthy? : a longitudinal empirical investigation

Ozkan, Serdar; Hubmer, Joachim; Salgado, Sergio; … - 2023

We use Norwegian administrative panel data on wealth and income between 1993 and 2015 to study lifecycle wealth dynamics, focusing on the wealthiest households. On average, the wealthiest start their lives substantially richer than other households in the same cohort, own mostly private equity,...

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Matching and saving in continuous time : proofs

Bayer, Christian; Wälde, Klaus - 2010

This paper provides the proofs to the analysis of a continuous time matching model with saving in Bayer and Wälde (2010a). The paper proves the results on consumption growth, provides an existence proof for optimal consumption and a detailed derivation of the Fokker-Planck equations. --...

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Do mobile pensioners threaten the deferred taxation of savings?

Meier, Volker; Wagener, Andreas - 2011

policy consists in full deferral of income taxes on savings and a full taxation of interest. Mobility of the old calls for … savings in combination with full tax exemption on capital income. -- deferred taxation ; income tax ; savings ; migration …

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Public investment when capital is back : distributional effects of heterogeneous saving behavior

Mattauch, Linus; Edenhofer, Ottmar; Klenert, David; … - 2014

We study the impact of heterogeneous saving behavior on the distributional effects of public investment. A capital tax is levied to finance productive public capital in an economy with two types of households: high income households who save dynastically and middle income households who save for...

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Should unemployment insurance be asset-tested

Köhne, Sebastian; Kuhn, Moritz - 2013

We study asset-tested unemployment insurance in an incomplete markets model with moral hazard during job search. Asset testing has two counteracting effects on welfare. On the one hand, it improves consumption insurance by introducing state contingent transfers to agents most in need. On the...

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Dynamics of capital accumulation in the US : simulations after Piketty

De Donder, Philippe; Roemer, John E. - 2015

We calibrate a sequence of four nested models to study the dynamics of wealth accumulation. Individuals maximize a utility function whose arguments are consumption and investment. They desire to accumulate wealth for its own sake - this is not a life-cycle model. A competitive firm produces a...

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