privatization effects on savings in Eastern Europe, with limited evidence of positive savings effects in Latin America. These …

utility function whose arguments are consumption and investment. They desire to accumulate wealth for its own sake - this is …

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 … monetary policy had a significant impact on Japan's household behavior via the interest rate channel and the redistribution …

high-productivity firms for investment and productivity enhancement, the latter suggests credit misallocation towards … exhibit a significant investment boost despite receiving more loans. However, these high-productivity firms displayed positive …

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 …

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 …