El Mekkaoui de Freitas, Najat; Martins, Joaquim Oliveira - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008
While the empirical evidence tends to support some predictions of the life-cycle theory, a number of puzzles remain: an ageing-consumption, an ageing-saving, a saving-capitalisation and a saving-longevity puzzles have been put forward in the literature. This paper analyses the links between...