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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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-Economic Panel that we combine with geographic flood data, we compare the savings behavior of affected and non-affected individuals …
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We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the impact of commodity price volatility on economic growth in a panel of up to 158 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main finding is that commodity price volatility leads to a significant increase in non-resource GDP growth in...
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This paper uses an endogenous-growth model with overlapping generations to explore the connection between fiscal federalism and economic growth. The analysis shows that federalism, which allows public-good levels to be tailored to suit the differing demands of young and old consumers, who live...
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-oil related investment, of an increase in household savings, or of households deleveraging. …
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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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