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Demographics, old-age transfers and the current account
Dao, Mai; Jones, Callum - 2018
Building on the evolving literature on the topic, this paper reviews the relationship between demographics and long-run capital flows in both theory and in the data. For this purpose, we develop a two region overlapping generations model where countries differ in their population growth and...
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Demographics, pension systems and the saving-investment balance
Chai, Hua; Kim, Jun-il - 2018
This paper studies the effect of demographic change on national saving, global interest rates, and international capital flows, focusing on the role of the public pension system. We develop a small open economy overlapping generations model to illustrate the channels through which demographic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978553
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Aging, Savings, and Pensions in the Group of Seven Countries: 1980-2025
International Monetary Fund - 1989
the elderly. This study suggests that these demographic trends may lead to a decline in the G-7 private savings rate after … 2000, compounding the impact of social expenditure pressures on the government’s deficit. Moreover, public pensions may …
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Assessing Chile's pension system : challenges and reform options
Evans, Christopher; Pienknagura, Samuel - 2021
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China’s demography and its implications
Lee, Il Houng; Qingjun, Xu; Syed, Murtaza - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009726452
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Government Debt, Life-Cycle Income and Liquidity Constrains : Beyond Approximate Ricardian Equivalence
Symansky, Steven A. - 1996
Evans (1991) has demonstrated that Blanchard’s (1985) finite-horizon model obeys approximate Ricardian equivalence. We show that this result is determined largely by an unrealistic assumption that labor income grows monotonically over a consumer’s entire lifetime. Introducing more realistic...
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Household Saving in France : Stochastic Income and Financial Deregulation
Levy, Joaquim Vieira Ferreira - 1994
The household saving ratio in France has undergone very sharp changes over the past two decades, falling dramatically in the first part of the 1980s before rising in more recent years. This paper emphasizes two factors in the evolution of private saving in France. The first relates to...
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Japan's Household Savings Rate : An Application of the Life-Cycle Hypothesis
International Monetary Fund - 1987
This paper develops and tests a model of Japan’s household savings rate, based on the life-cycle hypothesis that the … primary motive for savings is provision for retirement. The paper shows that Japan’s high household savings rate in recent … improvements in public pension benefits and the aging of the population. It projects that the savings rate will decline …
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Why Are Saving Rates of Urban Households in China Rising?
Chamon, Marcos - 2008
demographic groups, although the age-profile of savings has an unusual U-shaped pattern, with saving rates being the highest among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401821
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The impact of rapid aging and pension reform on savings and the labor supply : the case of China
He, Hui; Ning, Lei; Zhu, Dongming - 2019
We study, both empirically and quantitatively, the role of savings and the labor supply in self-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 …
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