and an incentive to save more themselves. For this reason, unfunded private pensions differ fundamentally from the … unfunded Social Security pension and the other unfunded federal government civilian and military pensions …

little effect on savings rates. In many countries, however, retirement incentives in social security programs prevent … retirement ages from keeping pace with changes in life expectancy, leading to an increased need for life-cycle savings. Analyzing … a cross-country panel of macroeconomic data, we find that increased longevity raises aggregate savings rates in …

) through both a savings channel and an effective labor supply channel. The effects can be quantitatively large if the …

China's high corporate savings rate is commonly claimed to be a key driver for the country's large current account … surplus. The mainstream explanation for high corporate savings is a combination of windfall profits in state-owned firms … doubt on these views by comparing the savings of 1557 Chinese listed firms with those of 29330 listed firms from 51 other …

This paper analyzes the determinants of savings in the world economy, and discusses why saving ratios have been so … uneven across countries. A distinction is made between private and government savings, using panel data for 36 countries …, from 1970 to 1992. In particular, it is assumed that government savings are not completely exogenous, and respond to both …