Private pension plans are now an important source of retirement income, especially in the United Kingdom and in the United States. They play an increasing role in the economy of most of the OECD countries. Therefore, we analyse the effect of pensions on private consumption. We focus on the...

Economic fluctuations, climate risk and a number of individual specific shocks leave households vulnerable to severe hardship in developing countries. Moreover, the credit and insurance markets are limited and the social coverage is weak. In this context, households saving is crucial to provide...

This article provides an analysis of the microeconomic determinants of household savings behaviour in Morocco according to geographical household residence. Descriptive statistics seem to indicate a similar savings pattern in both rural and urban areas but the econometric results do not support...

Cet article propose une analyse des déterminants microéconomiques de l’épargne des ménages au Maroc à partir d’une enquête menée à la fois en zone urbaine et en zone rurale. Les statistiques descriptives étudiées dans une première partie laissent supposer que les déterminants de...

This paper analyses the effects of transitory increases in government spending when public debt is used as liquidity by the private sector. Aggregate shocks are introduced into an incomplete-market economy where heterogenous, infitely-lived households face occasionally binding borrowing...

This article provides an overview of the literature on the psychological value of time. It discusses various determinants of the discount rate and the possibility of hyperbolic discounting. The historical approach helps us to trace the origins of the concept of psychological value of time. This...

Kimball, 1990a and Kimball, 1990b established that income risk increases the marginal propensity to consume if and only if absolute prudence decreases. We characterize decreasing and increasing multivariate prudence and show that a multidimensional risk increases the marginal propensity to...