share of assets held in the form of pension savings, at the expense of saving in the form of housing equity. Some evidence … also was found to suggest that the tax treatment of pension savings similarly affected the flow of saving. In particular …

creating alternative savings instruments are likely to have the biggest impact on consumption. Other mechanisms to raise …

China’s household saving rate has increased markedly since the mid-1990s and the age-savings profile has become U … transitory variance that rises sharply. A calibration of a buffer-stock savings model indicates that rising savings rates among … and pension reforms can account for over half of the increase in the urban household savings rate in China since the mid …

A firm theoretical basis for the empirical relationship between dependency rates and savings behavior in developing …, and on the savings responsiveness to changes in the real interest rate …

. The relationship between these variables is theoretically ambiguous: an adverse transitory terms of trade shock can either …

fall in response to a transitory terms of trade shock, depending on the values of the intertemporal elasticity of …