) complementing the usual estimation of a distributed lag model. A correction term accounts for non-random sample attrition, which has …

savings. Is saving behaviour in EU-accession countries now driven by the same forces as it is in market economies? We use a …

uncertainty on households' consumption-savings decision. Applying a structural demand model to German survey data, we estimate the … uncompensated interest rate elasticity for savings, in line with the literature, to around zero. Accordingly, any policy …-induced variation of net returns to savings is expected to have no significant effects on the level of savings. Moreover, we find …

structural life-cycle model of singles' and married couples' labor supply and savings decisions. The model includes heterogeneity …

The paper seeks to add to the existing literature on aggregate and private savings by focusing on transition economies …, aggregate and private savings are driven by almost the same forces - this is the central focus of the paper. The most important …