converge towards lower equilibrium real interest rates if domestic savings increase to the level of other emerging market … countries. The effect is particularly pronounced if the increase in domestic savings is achieved through higher levels of public … savings. Still, econometric results suggest that, controlling for everything else in the model, real interest rates in Brazil …

reassess national savings behavior, with greater prominence and more careful consideration given to the role played by changing … literature. Going further, we simulate global savings behavior based on our framework and find that China's demographics should … decades, individual countries' convergence toward the simulated savings pattern will be influenced by their past divergences …

We study, both empirically and quantitatively, the role of savings and the labor supply inself-insurance channels over … social security benefits for the period 1995-2009. We find that both savings and the labor supply are quantitatively … adjustment to savings and labor supply have significant macroeconomic implications. Applying the model to China, we find that the …

China's high national savings rate-one of the highest in the world-is at the heart of its external/internal imbalances …. High savings finance elevated investment when held domestically, or lead to large external imbalances when they flow abroad …. Today, high savings mostly emanate from the household sector, resulting from demographic changes induced by the one …