households, focusing on the dramatic change of the household savings rate since 1998, from high to low savings. The literature …This paper scrutinizes the role of prolonged, expansionary monetary policy on the savings behavior of Japanese … monetary policy had a significant impact on Japan's household behavior via the interest rate channel and the redistribution …

This paper investigates the impact of public employment on household saving rates in China using representative … household-level data. After controlling for a series of variables such as income, risk attitude, financial literacy, and … to a better understanding of Chinese household saving rates, which is of great importance given their extremely high …

, 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 …

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 …

We use the Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a rather unique dataset with a long time dimension of panel …

to consume (MPCs). Our main contribution is to document how MPCs vary with household characteristics and prize size, and …

across states shows that the rise in top income shares can explain almost all of the accumulation of household debt held as a … financial asset by the household sector. Since the Great Recession, the saving glut of the rich has been financing government …